[Pkg-gnupg-maint] gnupg build problem on mips(el)

[Florian Fainelli]

Hi Thijs,

On Monday 24 May 2010 12:51:13 Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> GnuPG 1.4.10-3 has experienced build failures on mips/mipsel, and only
> those archs:
> https://buildd.debian.org/pkg.cgi?pkg=gnupg
> 
> When trying to reproduce it then, I could indeed, but also I could
> reproduce it with 1.4.10-2 which built successfully on those archs in the
> past. So I suspect an issue outside of GnuPG and specific to mips(el).
> Since the only porter box, gabrielli, is down, I cannot try to see if it
> is still reproducible now (two months later).

This is likely to be still applicable. The build error comes from the removal 
of the 'h' constraint for MIPS in gcc-4.4.x versions. The following patch will 
fix the issue:

https://dev.openwrt.org/browser/packages/utils/gnupg/patches/001-
mips_gcc4.4.patch

> 
> As I have no such hardware, I would like your help in determining if the
> problem still exists, if so where it exists and if something can be done
> about it.
> 
> Thanks,
> Thijs