[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Bug#918781: src:gnustep-base: odd FTBFS on powerpc, powerpcspe and ppc64

[Mathieu Malaterre]

On Wed, Jan 9, 2019 at 11:21 AM Yavor Doganov <yavor at gnu.org> wrote:
>
> Source: gnustep-base
> Version: 1.26.0-1
> Severity: important
> Tags: sid buster ftbfs
> User: debian-powerpc at lists.debian.org
> Usertags: powerpc powerpcspe ppc64
>
> Hi PowerPC folks,
>
> As the subject says, gnustep-base failed to build in experimental on
> these architectures so I'd appreciate some help.
>
> The powerpcspe failure [1] is extremely awkward; the build appears
> successful but the log seems truncated, interrupted during dh_install.
> On powerpc [2] and ppc64 [3] there is testsuite failure, but all these
> tests pass for me on gcc110 from the GCC Compile Farm.  However,
> that's different toolchain and it's not even running Debian so any
> conclusion is unreliable.  I don't have access to the porter machines
> to test.
>
> Could these failures be related to the fact that kapitsa/kapitsa2 have
> some network-related issues as uploading build logs appears to be
> suspended for a certain (long) period?
>
> I guess give-backs on these three architectures wouldn't harm?

Based on the error on powerpc (2):

description.m:26:3: warning: passing argument 3 of
'initWithXMLString:options:error:' from incompatible pointer type
[-Wincompatible-pointer-types]
   xmlDoc = [[NSXMLDocument alloc] initWithXMLString:xmlDocStr
options:0 error:error];
   ^~~~~~
description.m:26:3: note: expected 'struct NSError **' but argument is
of type 'struct NSError *'

I would say something is bogus in the deps (update version number in
d/control to prevent possible incompatible deps).


> [1] https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=gnustep-base&arch=powerpcspe&ver=1.26.0-1&stamp=1546973971&raw=0
> [2] https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=gnustep-base&arch=powerpc&ver=1.26.0-1&stamp=1547024045&raw=0
> [3] https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=gnustep-base&arch=ppc64&ver=1.26.0-1&stamp=1547024045&raw=0
>