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

[Steve McIntyre]

On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 06:24:23PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>On Sun, Jan 06, 2019 at 10:38:55AM +0200, Yavor Doganov wrote:
>>
>>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.

No joy I'm afraid. I've just built libffi on the armhf porter box
(abel), installed all the packages in my chroot, rebuilt and tested
again and:

...
base/NSInvocation/general.m:
Failed test:     general.m:208 ... Can send/return NSRect
--- Running tests in base/NSInvocationOperation ---
--- Running tests in base/NSJSONSerialization ---
...

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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve at einval.com
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