[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Bug#453242: gnustep-base: FTBFS: checking if ffcall trampolines work... no

[Lucas Nussbaum]

On 28/11/07 at 23:51 -0500, Hubert Chathi wrote:
> Hi Lucas,
> 
> On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:44:23 +0100, Lucas Nussbaum <lucas at lucas-nussbaum.net> said:
> 
> > During a rebuild of all packages in sid, your package failed to build
> > on i386.
> 
> > I'm building in an i386 chroot on amd64. Maybe that's part of the
> > problem.
> 
> It compiles fine on my machine, which is a normal ix86 machine.  And it
> apparently compiles fine under amd64, too.  (Although ffcall does seem
> to have some problems with amd64 -- #451356.)
> 
> Is building in an i386 chroot on and amd64 a "normal" configuration that
> we are supposed to be supporting?

I'm not sure. However, the test probably tries to *run* the code, not
just compile it. So it probably won't be possible to use the package in
an i386 chroot on amd64.

> i.e. if it only fails in that configuration, should this bug be
> "serious" or "important"?

I don't know. However, a better question is probably "do we want it fix
or not?". Only 2 or 3 packages currently fail to build in an i386 chroot
on amd64, so it would be great not to add another one. :)

Note that 1.13.0-7 built fine, too.
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