Bug#737379: glib2.0: FTBFS on powerpc: several GIO tests fail

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

On 02/02/14 11:18, Simon McVittie wrote:
> Source: glib2.0
> Version: 2.38.2-1
> Severity: serious
> Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the past)
> 
> <https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=glib2.0&arch=powerpc&ver=2.38.2-1&stamp=1387998733>:

> proxy-tests, socket, gdbus-auth, gdbus-threading and gmenumodel are all
> a GSLice assertion failure. gdbus-peer is a different assertion failure.
> 
> I suspect that multi-threading might be involved: AIUI, these tests all
> exercise threaded functionality.

The gslice assertion is a bug in the valgrind support, already fixed in glib
upstream and in our repo.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=710983
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=278808

I don't know if the gdbus-peer failure is caused by this or is a different bug.

Regards,
Emilio