[Pkg-octave-devel] octave-odepkg FTBFS on mips

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Sébastien Villemot <sebastien.villemot at ens.fr> [2012-08-20 13:51]:

> Any idea about the cause of the octave-odepkg FTBFS on mips?

The build process was killed after 5 hours of inactivity.  This is the
kind of problem that is hard to debug.

> This is preventing the migration to wheezy of its RC bug fix.
> 
> Note that it's the first time that it tried to build on corelli, so
> maybe a give back on another buildd would make it.

Sure, version 0.8.2-1 built successfully on lucatelli [1], even though
the unit testing failed at:

    [odepkg_octsolver_mebdfdae]
    panic: Bus error -- stopping myself...
    Bus error

This issue has been fixed by Thomas (Bug#664797) in 0.8.2-2.

As a cheaper way of trying to fix the problem, it might be indeed a good
idea to request a give back, hoping that another machine will
successfully build the package.

1. https://buildd.debian.org/status/architecture.php?a=mips&suite=sid&buildd=buildd_mips-lucatelli

> Before trying that, I guess that it would be preferable to test it on a
> porterbox (this I can't do).

In the past, I used qemu for cross-compiling packages on exotic
architectures (like mips) and my recollection is that it did a good job.

Rafael