[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Bug#918366: FTBFS for armhf on arm64, fails some tests

[Steve McIntyre]

On Sun, Jan 06, 2019 at 10:38:55AM +0200, Yavor Doganov wrote:
>Steve McIntyre wrote:
>> Package: src:gnustep-base
>> Version: 1.25.1-4
>> Severity: important
>
>> I've tried to build gnustep-base for armhf on top of arm64, and AFAICS
>> it's failing some of its tests:
>
>Thanks for the report.  Only one test is failing:
>
>| base/NSInvocation/general.m:
>| Failed test:     general.m:208 ... Can send/return NSRect

OK, cool.

>This is consistent failure as it failed 3 times on arm-arm-01 (arm64
>buildd targeting armhf) in November when gnustep-base was binNMUed for
>the ICU transition.  Finally it was given back again and built
>successfully on arnold.
>
>I see that libffi was also built on arm-arm-01.  It would help a lot
>if you can retry the gnustep-base build with libffi built on armhf.
>If it succeeds it would certainly mean that the problem is in libffi.
>Otherwise, it may well be a GNUstep bug which we'll need to
>investigate somehow.

I'll see what I can do.

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