Bug#289884: The Configure script seems buggy

[Niko Tyni]

On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 03:36:49PM +0200, Marc Pignat wrote:
 
> The Configure script is missing the return value of the unaligned access test.
> 
> As we can see in the buildd log (https://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=perl;ver=5.10.1-12;arch=armel;stamp=1271034947),
> the build system for perl thinks ARM can access unaligned data.
> 
> But this is *wrong*.
> 
> I extracted and compiled the test program, and it fails on ARM (as expected).
> 
> So this is a problem with the Configure script. It seems to miss the return value of the
> test executed.

Thanks for looking into this!

Does the test program failure depend on /proc/cpu/alignment ?

I expect that fixing the problem will change the ABI, which is something
we can't (easily) do for the 5.10.1 series. However, 5.12.1 is only in
experimental and ABI changes are still possible for that branch.

I wonder if the armel slowness reported in #543477 is related.

I'm a bit short on time, will investigate properly later.
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org