Bug#924291: closed by Markus Koschany <apo at debian.org> (Bug#924291: fixed in netrek-client-cow 3.3.1-3)

[Stephen Kitt]

Hi Helmut,

Le 10/04/2019 13:59, Markus Koschany a écrit :
> Am 10.04.19 um 06:33 schrieb Helmut Grohne:
>> On Sun, Mar 24, 2019 at 01:09:06PM +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System 
>> wrote:
>>>    * Fix infinite loop patch. Really (Closes: #924291)
>> 
>> As much as I hate to say this, it still loops. You can see failing
>> (cross) builds at http://crossqa.debian.net/src/netrek-client-cow. All
>> of them were terminated by manual intervention.
>> 
>> Remember: I'm not asking for netrek-client-cow to cross build. I'm
>> asking for it to fail sanely.
>> 
>> The current version loops like this:
>> 
>> | /bin/sh: 1: ./mkkey: Exec format error
>> | /bin/sh: 1: attempts: not found
>> | /bin/sh: 1: test: -le: unexpected operator
> 
> I don't know why this happens now and on what system but I thought the
> last update of the possible-infinite-loop.patch was correct.

The problem is that the execution fails too early, effectively, so the 
countdown of attempts never works.

I have a patch which builds mkkey using the build CC, which makes the 
build fail earlier because we don't have libgmp, so that would fix the 
endless build ;-). Helmut, do we have any way of specifying native 
build-deps? IIRC we don't yet, is that still the case?

Regards,

Stephen