[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#656755: libhmsbeagle FTBFS on everything except amd64

[Adam D. Barratt]

On Sat, 2012-01-21 at 17:16 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 03:00:25PM +0000, peter green wrote:
> > It seems things are a little more complex than they first  appeared.
> > In particular it seems libhmsbeagle has a specific "sse2 plugin"
> > which can only be built with sse2 enabled and that is built even if
> > --enable-sse=no is passed (which seems like a bug in the upstream
> > build system to me). Therefore disabling -msse2 has caused the
> > package to FTBFS everywhere except amd64.
> > 
> > For non pc architectures I would think the sse2 plugin should simply
> > be disabled.
> 
> Do you have any hint how I could find this plugin which should be
> disabled.
[...]
> A failed build log would probably be helpful.  I also have included
> upstream whether they might be able to give any hint about this issue:

Predictably, https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=libhmsbeagle
has several - the hurd-i386, powerpc and s390x logs all look like they
fail whilst building libhmsbeagle_cpu_sse_la-BeagleCPUSSEPlugin.lo.

Regards,

Adam