Bug#869122: Bug#869373: Bug#869122: perl: 5.26 FTBFS on hppa: broken miniperl?

[John David Anglin]

On 2017-07-24, at 4:45 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:

> On 07/24/2017 10:36 PM, Niko Tyni wrote:
>> I feel somewhat uneasy about applying a workaround patch that affects
>> all the architectures for the sake of non-release architectures.
> 
> Then just apply it conditionally in debian/rules:
> 
> ifneq (,$(filter hppa sh4, $(DEB_HOST_ARCH)))
>        patch -p1 < debian/patches/hppa-fix.patch
> endif
> 
> It's not the cleanest solution, but should fix the problem.


For now, I think that is a good suggestion.  It will probably take some time to diagnose the
gcc bug and find a fix.

Dave
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