Bug#869373: perl: Please add workaround to fix FTBFS on sh4

[Niko Tyni]

On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 09:19:30PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On 07/22/2017 09:08 PM, Niko Tyni wrote:
> > Thanks. In that case you should be able to work around the breakage
> > (and hopefully catch up with the 5.26 transition) by building with
> > DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noopt.
> 
> This is for the buildds. I know that I can build the package manually.

Sure, I was just thinking of a manual "porter upload" to get the binNMUs
going before the next source upload. But it looks like you (or someone
else) did that already.
 
> > The failure mode looks very similar to the hppa one (#869122, cc'd)
> > so I guess it should get similar treatment.
> 
> I tried the same workaround on hppa, it didn't help unfortunately.

Too bad. Dropping that bug then.

> > Would you be able to narrow this down to file level? Cf. #838613 and
> > debian/patches/debian/hppa_op_optimize_workaround.diff
> 
> This patch seems to fix a failure of the testsuite, no? The build on
> hppa crashes much earlier though.

My point was just that file-level optimizations can be achieved by
modifying cflags.SH as seen in that patch. I think (but haven't
verified) that miniperl is built via cflags.SH too.
-- 
Niko