[Pkg-openssl-devel] Bug#804487: rebuilding openssl_1.0.2d-1 exhibits the same issue

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 08:10:50PM +0000, Chris Knadle wrote:
> Kurt Roeckx:
> > On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 08:00:57AM +0000, Chris Knadle wrote:
> >> I'd like to try building openssl_1.0.2d-1 with gcc-4.9 to see if the
> >> behavior change was due to gcc-5 -- if there's an easy way to specify that
> >> please let me know.
> > 
> > If you edit the Configure file, for instance the debian-amd64
> > line, it has the compiler for that target in it.
> > 
> > Note that the debian-amd64 line comes from the
> > debian-targets.patch.
> 
> Thanks, that was helpful.
> 
> ... Huh.  Rebuilding openssl_1.0.2d-1 with gcc-4.9 and using it to build
> mumble_1.2.10-2 with g++-5, the result works fine.  So it seems it was
> simply the switch to gcc-5 that changed this behavior.
> 
> On the one hand one could call this a regression since it breaks something
> that worked before, and on the other hand it caught a bug in the code in
> mumble that nobody knew it had.  This therefore leaves a question as to
> whether to consider this is a bug or a feature of gcc-5.  Probably both.

I'm not sure what to make of this. I find it strange the a change
in the compiler can have something like that as effect.


Kurt