[DSE-Dev] Bug#1098481: FTBFS: static_asserts in matchpathcon.c impossible to satify on x32

[Bryon Roche]

Package: libselinux1
Version: 3.8-3
Severity: serious
Tags: ftbfs upstream
Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the past)
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-amd64 at lists.debian.org
User: debian-x32 at lists.debian.org
Usertags: x32


libselinux1 fails to build from source on x32 due to some impossible-to-satisfy
static assertions in matchpathcon.c.

I do not know the correct answer with certainty, but I believe either the
asserts are too strict on x32, or the api/abi for matchpathcon_filespec_add is
simply wrong.  As this is essentially an upstream bug, I have also reported
this upstream to selinux @ https://github.com/SELinuxProject/selinux/issues/463
.

Incidentally, and more directly debian-related, and possibly but not really
related to https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1063329, neither
branch of USE_LFS will currently result in a successful build on x32 either, as
neither variant of the asserts are correct on that arch.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: x32 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386, amd64

Kernel: Linux 6.12.15-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU thread; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages libselinux1 depends on:
ii  libc6         2.40-7
ii  libpcre2-8-0  10.45-1

libselinux1 recommends no packages.

libselinux1 suggests no packages.

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