[Pkg-clamav-devel] Uploading 0.98.7+dfsg-4

[Sebastian Andrzej Siewior]

On 2015-11-27 00:01:09 [+0100], Andreas Cadhalpun wrote:
> Hi Sebastian,
Hi Andreas,

> On 24.11.2015 23:45, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> The most important change between 0.98.7+dfsg-4+b1 and 0.99~rc2+dfsg-1 is
> that in the latter the bytecode tests are actually run, while they aren't
> in the former.
> 
> So it's even worse than you thought: 0.98.7+dfsg-4+b1 is also broken on powerpc.
> I verified that by building current unstable branch, where the check patch
> is fixed, on powerpc. It also fails with these segfaults.

hehe. goodie.

> It seems to me that LLVM's MCJIT is totally broken on powerpc, i.e. it
…
> This works with the JIT engine from LLVM 3.5, but the MCJIT engine from
> LLVM 3.5 also segfaults.
> 
> I have no idea how to fix LLVM.
> We could work around this problem by using LLVM 3.5 on powerpc, but that is
> no long term solution.

That MCJIT thingy, why wasn't it used on llvm-3.5? Is it something that
needs to be used on llvm-3.6?
Looking at llvm's testsuite, it ignores failures on everything but x86.

What exactly do we lose if we disable llvm?

> Best regards,
> Andreas

Sebastian