Bug#942609: pspp: build with -O2 to avoid misbuild with CFLAGS=-O3

Steve Langasek steve.langasek at canonical.com
Sat Oct 19 00:23:30 BST 2019


Package: pspp
Version: 1.2.0-3
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
User: ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
Usertags: origin-ubuntu focal ubuntu-patch

Dear maintainers,

In Ubuntu, pspp was failing to build on ppc64el because the Ubuntu ppc64el
port, unlike Debian's, uses -O3 as the default optimization level; and when
built this way, at least on ppc64el the package fails one of its tests:

[...]
## ------------------------ ##
Failed tests:
GNU PSPP 1.2.0 test suite test groups:

 NUM: FILE-NAME:LINE     TEST-GROUP-NAME
      KEYWORDS

 126: sys-file-reader.at:2951 zero or one variable in mrset
      sack synthetic system file negative multiple response

## ---------------------- ##
## Detailed failed tests. ##
## ---------------------- ##

#                             -*- compilation -*-
126. sys-file-reader.at:2951: testing zero or one variable in mrset ...
./sys-file-reader.at:2970: sack --$variant sys-file.sack > sys-file.sav
./sys-file-reader.at:2973: pspp -O format=csv sys-file.sps
--- -   2019-01-16 11:24:48.338741568 +0000
+++ /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/tests/testsuite.dir/at-groups/126/stdout   2019-01-16 11:24:48.335475863 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+warning: `sys-file.sav' near offset 0xd8: Missing new-line parsing variable names at offset 22 in MRSETS record.
+
 warning: `sys-file.sav': MRSET $a has only one variable.
 
 warning: `sys-file.sav': MRSET $b has no variables.
126. sys-file-reader.at:2951: 126. zero or one variable in mrset (sys-file-reader.at:2951): FAILED (sys-file-reader.at:2973)
[...]

  (https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pspp/1.2.0-2build1/+build/16278288)

We've therefore uploaded the attached patch to Ubuntu to get the package
building on all architectures.

While this issue doesn't affect Debian in its default configuration, this
patch or one like it would help make the package more resilient to
downstreams that use other build flags.

Thanks for considering,
-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
Ubuntu Developer                                   https://www.debian.org/
slangasek at ubuntu.com                                     vorlon at debian.org
-------------- next part --------------
diff -Nru pspp-1.2.0/debian/rules pspp-1.2.0/debian/rules
--- pspp-1.2.0/debian/rules	2019-04-23 04:59:03.000000000 -0700
+++ pspp-1.2.0/debian/rules	2019-10-01 16:45:29.000000000 -0700
@@ -29,6 +29,11 @@
 #CONFIGUREFLAGS =
 #endif
 
+ifeq ($(DEB_HOST_ARCH),ppc64el)
+  export DEB_CFLAGS_MAINT_APPEND += -O2
+  export DEB_CFLAGS_MAINT_STRIP += -O3
+endif
+
 %:
 	dh $@ --with autoreconf,elpa
 


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