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

[Simon McVittie]

On Sun, 02 Feb 2014 at 11:43:11 +0100, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> On 02/02/14 11:18, Simon McVittie wrote:
> > proxy-tests, socket, gdbus-auth, gdbus-threading and gmenumodel are all
> > a GSLice assertion failure. gdbus-peer is a different assertion failure.
> 
> The gslice assertion is a bug in the valgrind support, already fixed in glib
> upstream and in our repo.  [...]
> I don't know if the gdbus-peer failure is caused by this or is a different bug.

I don't own a working powerpc, and I couldn't reproduce the FTBFS by
building the unfixed version 2.38.2-1 on Debian's only powerpc porterbox
(partch). I'm now trying 10 repetitions of "make -C debian/build/deb/gio check"
to see whether it's non-deterministic; the first 3 have all passed.

I'm going to assume that this patch fixes all of the test failures
mentioned in this bug unless we discover otherwise, and close this bug
in the changelog; it seems plausible, at least.

    S