[R-pkg-team] Bug#1064135: bigmemory: fails to migrate to testing for too long: autopkgtest fails on arm*, ppc64el and s390x

[Charles Plessy]

On Wed, 7 May 2025 18:11:57 +0900 Charles Plessy 
<charles.plessy at oist.jp> wrote:
 > Hi all,
 >
 > I am trying to pass -fsigned-char to the compiler when building the
 > package but failed to do it by adding a src/Makevars file.  (see patch
 > below).  What is the standard approach?

 > --- /dev/null
 > +++ r-cran-bigmemory-4.6.4/src/Makevars
 > @@ -0,0 +1 @@
 > +CXXFLAGS = -fsigned-char

Hi all,

adding the following to debian/rules

export DEB_CFLAGS_MAINT_APPEND = -fsigned-char
or
export DEB_CXXFLAGS_MAINT_APPEND = -fsigned-char

also did not have an effect.

Any suggestion?

Charles

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