Bug#977779: geary FTBFS on mipsel: test suite failure

[Adrian Bunk]

On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 01:58:32PM +0100, Alberto Garcia wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 09:09:17PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > Source: geary
> > > Version: 3.38.1-1
> 
> > > The latest version of geary fails to build on mipsel [1]. The test
> > > suite fails.
> > 
> > This is not specific to geary and not specific to this version of
> > geary, the search is already ongoing for the regression that makes
> > webkit2gtk and some rdeps FTBFS on some buildds on mipsel.
> 
> I see that the build eventually succeeded:
> 
>    https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=geary&ver=3.38.1-1&arch=mipsel
> 
> The webkit2gtk build is flaky itself in mipsel, we discussed this
> already in the past (#962616), I wonder if this is the same root
> problem?

This is the same problem.

Note that the build is not and never was flaky,
it does 100% determinisitically fail on Loongson
buildds and succeed on Octeon buildds.

Jiaxun Yang discovered this weekend that CeilingOnPageSize is wrong for 
Loongson which has 16 kB pagesize and this matches when the problems 
started in 2.28.1, but unfortunately fixing this does not seem to fix 
all problems.

> Berto

cu
Adrian