Bug#1042980: gnome-shell: FTBFS on mips64el, mipsel: perf-* tests fail

[Simon McVittie]

On Fri, 04 Aug 2023 at 20:05:20 +0800, YunQiang Su wrote:
> > > Instead of doing this low-level ELF manipulation, I'm testing a patch which
> > > uses an environment variable to propagate the search path into the
> > > executable - that seems less likely to go wrong on unusual architectures.

This is https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/2858
and is also available as part of
https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/71.
I think that's a more future-proof approach than adjusting the pointer
based on guessing what the base address is.

> FYI: this patch can fix the segfault problem in
> maybe_add_rpath_introspection_paths

I think my approach seems more likely to be reliable, but we can use
yours as a plan B.

> I am continue working on (EE) failed to write to Xwayland fd: Broken
> pipe problem.

Thanks!

    smcv