Bug#873783: wcc: FTBFS on non-amd64 architectures

[Philippe Thierry]

Le 31/08/2017 à 05:10, Aaron M. Ucko a écrit :
> Source: wcc
> Version: 0.0.2+dfsg-1
> Severity: important
> Tags: upstream
> Justification: fails to build from source
>
> Builds of wcc for architectures other than (Linux) amd64 have been
> failing.
>
> On non-x86 architectures, there are two considerations: the
> embedded copy of openlibm under src/wsh generally has no
> $(ARCH)/Make.files, and GCC doesn't support -masm=intel regardless.
> You could sidestep the former by building against separately packaged
> libopenlibm-dev (as called for by Policy 4.13), but the latter may be
> more of a problem.
Should be corrected by last update using libopenlibm-dev from Debian.
For non-Linux, I've updated to Architecture: linux-any by  now. I'll
check for Freebsd & Hurd in the meantime.
>
> On non-Linux architectures (kFreeBSD and presumably also the Hurd if
> and when clang becomes installable there), there's no <linux/elf-em.h>
> for arch.h to include.
>
> On i386, wsh somehow winds up compiled for the wrong architecture,
> leading to link errors:
>
>   /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/gcc/i686-linux-gnu/7/../../../i386-linux-gnu/libiberty.a when searching for -liberty
>   /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libiberty.a when searching for -liberty
>   /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -liberty
>
> On x32 (admittedly not a release architecture), wcc is still in the
> Needs-Build queue; I'm not sure what will happen there.
I will make some more tests on various arches including CI). If
everything is okay I update the package.

Cheers,

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