Bug#736616: Bug#637757: libaudio-ecasound-perl: FTBFS on mips

[Damyan Ivanov]

-=| Alessandro Ghedini, 26.01.2014 13:51:58 +0100 |=-
> On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 05:55:29PM +0200, Damyan Ivanov wrote:
> > Control: clone -1 -2
> > Control: reassign -2 libecasoundc1/2.9.1-1
> > Control: retitle -2 libecasoundc1: int-cmd-list command fails on mips
> > Control: block -1 by -2
> > 
> > Dear ecasound maintainers,
> > 
> > It appears there is a problem with ecasound/libecasoundc1 on mips, 
> > which causes failures in the test suite of libaudio-ecasound-perl, 
> > making it FTBFS.
> > 
> > I was able to isolate the problem using the following C program:
> 
> The problem seems to be that eci_init() fails, so a better test case would be:
> 
> #include <stdio.h>
> 
> #include <libecasoundc/ecasoundc.h>
> 
> int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
> 	eci_init();
> 
> 	if (eci_ready() == 0) {
> 		puts("fail");
> 		return 1;
> 	}
> 
> 	return 0;
> }

Right. My lack of understanding how libecasoundc works shows :)
> 
> > The trace ends with:
> > 
> > ----------------------------------------->8--
> > [...]
> > ----------------------------------------->8--
> 
> This unfortunately doesn't seem to be very helpful since it doesn't show the
> error (which actually happens in the middle of the clock_gettime()s). In any
> case I don't think it would add much anyway.

I attach the trace (compressed) just in case.

> Anyway, the problem seems to be in the eci_impl_read_return_value() function,
> called by eci_init_r(). In particular, the last check fails, but I'm not quite
> sure what it's supposed to test. I'll forward this upstream.


Thanks. I hope they reply soon.


Cheers,
    dam
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