[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#816610: libguestfs: FTBFS on mips

[Aurelien Jarno]

On 2016-03-03 16:53, Hilko Bengen wrote:
> Control: severity -1 important
> Control: block -1 by 815409
> 
> * Emilio Pozuelo Monfort:
> 
> > Your package fails to build on mips:
> 
> Thanks. This is a known issue, the cause a bug in qemu. See #815409 for
> a previous report and my attempt at some debugging.
> 
> I am downgrading this bug to "important" but am keeping it here.
> 
> If the bug in qemu can't be resolved, I'll remove mips from the list of
> architectures for which libguestfs is built.

As explained in the qemu bug, this is actually a kernel bug, which has
been fixed in version 4.8. All the mips build daemons now use a 4.9
kernel, so I think this problem can be considered as solved.

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