[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Bug#453242: gnustep-base: FTBFS: checking if ffcall trampolines work... no

[Lucas Nussbaum]

Package: gnustep-base
version: 1.14.1-2
Severity: serious
User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
Usertags: qa-ftbfs-20071126 qa-ftbfs
Justification: FTBFS on i386

Hi,

During a rebuild of all packages in sid, your package failed to build on i386.

I'm building in an i386 chroot on amd64. Maybe that's part of the
problem.

Relevant part:

 > checking if ffcall trampolines work... no
 > none
 > 
 > You have ffcall, but it does not work properly. Most likely because
 > your system's security policy is blocking some parts of ffcall
 > we recommend installing libffi instead.
 > GNUstep requires ffcall or libffi and proper libobjc hooks to do
 > invocations and DO.
 > (This does not apply on apple-apple-apple systems where DO is
 > not compatible with other GNUstep systems.)
 > 
 > You most likely do not want to build base without DO support. Many
 > things, including all applications, won't work at all without DO.
 > If you really want to build -base without DO support, add --disable-do
 > to the configure arguments.
 > For more information, read the GNUstep build guide, ffcall section:
 > http://gnustep.made-it.com/BuildGuide/index.html
 > configure: error: Incomplete support for ffi functionality.
 > make: *** [debian/configure-stamp] Error 1
 > dpkg-buildpackage: failure: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2

The full build log is available from:
	http://people.debian.org/~lucas/logs/2007/11/26

A list of current common problems and possible solutions is available at 
http://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/FTBFS . You're welcome to contribute!

About the archive rebuild: The rebuild was done on about 50 AMD64 nodes
of the Grid'5000 platform, using a clean chroot containing a sid i386
environment.  Internet was not accessible from the build systems.

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