Bug#1077181: gtk4: FTBFS on riscv64: a11y/text, a11y/textview tests segfault

[Simon McVittie]

On Fri, 26 Jul 2024 at 14:48:36 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Jul 2024 at 14:53:03 +0200, Matthias Geiger wrote:
> > The a11y tests just seem to segfault:
> > 
> > 478/668 gtk:a11y / text                                                              ERROR             0.73s   killed by signal 11 SIGSEGV
> > 
> > 479/668 gtk:a11y / textview                                                          ERROR             0.71s   killed by signal 11 SIGSEGV

This might be related to https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/6490
which reported that these same tests were segfaulting on Ubuntu armhf and
i386. debian/patches/debian/ignore_a11ytext_i386.patch marks these tests
to be skipped on i386, but no further diagnosis appears to have been done.

The obvious next step here is for someone to run those tests and get a
backtrace, and see whether it's (a) reproducible, and (b) the same on i386
and riscv64.

Note that as noted on the upstream issue, these tests require special
environment variables to be set, and are expected to crash otherwise
(but that is not a bug).

    smcv