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

[Yavor Doganov]

Steve McIntyre wrote:
> 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.
> >
> >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

OK, thanks a lot.

Can you run the test under gdb (it's already compiled and the binary
should be Tests/base/NSInvocation/obj/general), put a break at line
207 and print rret, rarg and rprx?  I suppose one of these is a zero
rect, or more likely, garbage.