Bug#758438: gmp: FTBFS on mips: configure: error: ABI=64 is not among the following valid choices: o32

[Aurelien Jarno]

Package: gmp
Version: 2:6.0.0+dfsg-5
Severity: serious
Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the past)

The recent changes in gmp causes it to fail to build on mips:

|     AR=ar CC="mips-linux-gnu-gcc" CFLAGS="-g -O2 -Wformat -Werror=format-security -O3" \
|     CXX="mips-linux-gnu-g++" CXXFLAGS="-g -O2 -Wformat -Werror=format-security"
| checking build system type... mips-unknown-linux-gnu
| checking host system type... mips-unknown-linux-gnu
| checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
| checking whether build environment is sane... yes
| checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
| checking for gawk... no
| checking for mawk... mawk
| checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
| checking whether make supports nested variables... yes
| checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
| configure: error: ABI=64 is not among the following valid choices: o32
| make: *** [configure-stamp] Error 1
| debian/rules:93: recipe for target 'configure-stamp' failed

A full build log is available there:

https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=gmp&arch=mips&ver=2%3A6.0.0%2Bdfsg-5&stamp=1408283083

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') 
Architecture: mips (mips64)

Kernel: Linux 3.14-2-5kc-malta
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash