Bug#480776: cacao_0.99~rc5-1(sparc/experimental): FTBFS: C compiler cannot create executables

[Michael Koch]

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 02:09:10AM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
> Package: cacao
> Version: 0.99~rc5-1
> Severity: serious
> 
> Hi,
> 
> your package failed to build from source.
> 
> The reason seems to be that configure tries to compile an executable
> with -m64 which fails since gcc-multilib isn't installed. I have no
> idea _why_ it tries that, though.

The problem is that upstream supports cacao only on sparc64 but Debian's
sparc userland is 32 bit. I will disable cacao on sparc with next
upload.


Cheers,
Michael