[Pkg-pascal-devel] Bug#985946: patch proposal

[Abou Al Montacir]

Hi David,

On Mon, 2021-11-22 at 15:21 +1100, David Bannon wrote:
> On Sun, 2021-11-21 at 16:29 +0100, Abou Al Montacir wrote:
> > Hi David,
> > 
> > On Wed, 2021-11-17 at 11:05 +1100, David Bannon wrote:
> > > Just an update, I can build tomboy-ng fine on ppc64le using the current
> > > FPC and Lazarus direct from the FPC.   
> > > 
> > > I have pushed a new release of tomboy-ng up to my sponsor, Philipp and
> > > it has pie hardening turned off for ppc64le, something I found
> > > necessary and believe is worthy of further investigation.  
> > > 
> > > I have not tested using Sid/Bookworm Debian FPC and Lazarus as they are
> > > in somewhat of a state of flux at present so, because of that, and the
> > > PIE issue, will leave this ticket open for now. 
> > 
> > What do you mean?
> 
> PIE Issues - To make a stable binary for my app, I needed to turn off the
> hardening for the powerpc64 processor. I cannot, at this stage determine if
> FPC deliberately supports hardening on POWER, I need to do some more
> experiments. I suspect (but do not know) that FPC hardening may be limited to
> x86 and ARM.
I don't know, maybe you can ask on the FPC forum?
> 
> I have not heard back from sponsor Philipp Huebner,  (and thats unusual) so he
> may be unhappy about me disabling PIE Hardening on powerpc64.  Honesly, I very
> much doubt anyone is going to use it there !
Then you can disable that target for your package. I don't think Release Team
will be happy with that, but may be acceptable.
> 
> Sid/Bookworm Lazarus - At the time of writing, there was an issue with Lazarus
> that I think you have fixed already (thanks!) whereby the name of the package
> disagreed with the name that Lazarus uses internally (as shown
> in ide/version.inc). This confuses Lazarus when it rebuilds itself. I did not
> raise a bug because by time I went back to track it down, I found you had
> already fixed it.  
The ticket is now closed.
> 
> The problem only arises when using the Lazarus IDE, not when using Lazarus's
> LCL to build an app. And this problem existed, a few weeks ago, in Bullseye, I
> have not been back there to test ....
The issue will remain in Bullseye, but we will cope with it by uploading 2.0.12
to backports.
> 
> 
> 
> > It is perfectly usable for daily usage. Maybe we can open a separate thread
> > for that, or is there a ticket tracking this?
> 
> No, no ticket, as you have fixed it in sid/bookworm, I guess you have it under
> control in bullseye, if you are unsure I can quickly build a fresh Bullseye
> and test.
No need, thanks!
> 
> 
> > > 
> > > > 2. So, I built from source and the bigide version will not build due
> > > > to lhelp
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > Please open a ticket for that.
> 
> OK, will do so (but I don't like logging bugs without trying to fix them
> myself). Its an assembler  problem, FPC seems to make a basecontentprovider.s
> file that it calls the assembler on and that fails. I don't understand the
> process.  Needs someone who understands POWER assembly code I am afraid.  The
> message is -
> 
> lib/powerpc64-linux/basecontentprovider.s:1112: Error: can't resolve
> `.text.n_basecontentprovider_$$_geturiprefix$ansistring$$ansistring'
> {.text.n_basecontentprovider_$$_geturiprefix$ansistring$$ansistring section} -
> `.BASECONTENTPROVIDER_$$_GETURIPREFIX$ANSISTRING$$ANSISTRING' {*UND* section}
> 
> It does not prevent me from building my app so should not be discussed in this
> thread, sorry !
On ppc64el, Lazaus tests are failing due to an internal error. I may disable
that target for Lazarus, then it will disable all LCL based apps, unless I ca
find the root cause or upstream accepts to help on it.
-- 
Cheers,
Abou Al Montacir


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