Bug#821347: libsecret porting for s390x

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

On 27/07/16 14:16, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> On 2016-07-10 21:24, Andreas Henriksson wrote:
>> Hello Bastian Blank.
>>
>> On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 12:33:12PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
>>> On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 10:12:31PM +0200, Andreas Henriksson wrote:
>>>> I'd like to ask for your help with looking at the problems building
>>>> libsecret on s390x. It's currently the only (release-)architecture
>>>> not building and blocking testing migration for a long time. :(
>>>
>>> What was the result of your manual build on the s390x porter machine?
>>
>> Building on a porter box (zelenka) seems to run into the same issue
>> and build gets stuck after:
>> PASS: test-collection 27 /collection/search-secrets-async
>>
>> Same as in:
>> https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=libsecret&arch=s390x&ver=0.18.5-1&stamp=1462961523
> 
> Note that it also fails the same way on ppc64 and s390x. It therefore
> looks like a 64-bit big endian issue. It could be for example a pointer
> to an int value casted to a pointer to a long value or vice-versa.

I started to look at this the last weekend. I haven't found the cause yet, but I
believe it's a bug in gobject-introspection, indeed related to 32 vs 64 bit
values. I will try to look at it some more in the next few days.

Cheers,
Emilio