[Pkg-libburnia-devel] Bug#753421: blocking the ppc64el architecture bootstrap

[Thomas Schmitt]

Hi,

i am the upstream programmer.

> Don't hesitate to ask questions if you need help to fix this bug.

Can it be that the linker of that ppc64el installation is insufficient ?

I diffed the build logs of ppc64el and i386. These are suspicious:

< checking whether the gcc linker (/usr/bin/ld -m elf64ppc) supports shared libr
aries... no
---
> checking whether the gcc linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes
[...]
< checking if libtool supports shared libraries... no
< checking whether to build shared libraries... no
---
> checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
> checking whether to build shared libraries... yes


The source compilation part of both shows the same warnings
and no errors.
ppc64el finally fails with

     dh_install -a
  dh_install: libburn4 missing files (debian/tmp/usr/lib/libburn.so.4*), aborting
  make: *** [binary-arch] Error 2

Well, if the linker cannot create .so libraries, then this is
no wonder.

The logs i compared are:
  https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=libburn&arch=ppc64el&ver=1.3.2-1&stamp=1408406204
  https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=libburn&arch=i386&ver=1.3.2-1&stamp=1378654298

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PS:
If Debian decides to upgrade libburnia to 1.3.8, please consider
to include a patch for libisofs because of
  http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~libburnia-team/libisofs/scdbackup/revision/1162/libisofs/fs_image.c


Have a nice day :)

Thomas