[pkg-go] Bug#877896: certspotter: FTBFS on mips{,el}

[Faidon Liambotis]

Hi Julien!

On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 10:13:11PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> certspotter FTBFS on the mips and mipsel buildds with no useful error message:
> 
> > dh_auto_build: go install -gcflags=\"-trimpath=/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/obj-mips-linux-gnu/src\" -asmflags=\"-trimpath=/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/obj-mips-linux-gnu/src\" -v -p 4 software.sslmate.com/src/certspotter software.sslmate.com/src/certspotter/cmd software.sslmate.com/src/certspotter/cmd/certspotter software.sslmate.com/src/certspotter/cmd/ctparsewatch software.sslmate.com/src/certspotter/cmd/submitct software.sslmate.com/src/certspotter/ct software.sslmate.com/src/certspotter/ct/client returned exit code 1
> > debian/rules:4: recipe for target 'build-arch' failed
> > make: *** [build-arch] Error 1

The error message is one line above from the paste above:
  go build golang.org/x/text/unicode/norm: /usr/bin/mips-linux-gnu-gccgo-7: waitid: bad address

…and this points to #867358, which seems to be a kernel bug affecting Go
packages. It's apparently fixed in 4.13 and queued up for (but not yet
in) stretch. I've known of this FTBFS and been tracking this bug for a
while, it's been moving slowly :/

Once that fix reaches stretch and runs in the buildds, I'll ask for a
give-back. We can keep this bug open until then.

Regards,
Faidon