Bug#942113: 3depict: FTBFS on PPC64EL - POWERPC macro not always defined

Olly Betts olly at survex.com
Thu Oct 17 19:47:01 BST 2019


On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 04:52:58PM +1300, Olly Betts wrote:
> Aha!  wxWidgets "helpfully" defines __POWERPC__ for us on ppc64el, but
> to an empty value.  Then 3depict has a workaround to define it to 1 if
> it is defined, because that empty value breaks Qhull.
> 
> This bug has been open 7 days without a maintainer response now, so
> I'm going to NMU a patch to undefine __POWERPC__ instead, which seems
> a better solution since Qhull won't expect GCC to define it anyway.

That helped, but qhull_a.h is also included elsewhere without this
workaround which caused my upload to FTBFS on ppc64el.  I've extended
the patch to cover that case too and uploaded again.

Cheers,
    Olly



More information about the debian-science-maintainers mailing list