Bug#705909: libmath-prime-util-perl: FTBFS (failing tests) on some architectures

[Dana Jacobsen]

I just found this report of build failures on the Debian mailing list -- I
had not seen these before.  I managed to reproduce it on a Power7 machine,
and found the fix.

I see that the issue came up when I switched the ranged moebius return
value from an IV*  (long *) to char*.  On every other machine, char is
being treated as signed.  On these platforms it is unsigned (which they
technically may do).  I switched to explicit signed char and that seems to
have fixed it.  I'll get a release out next week.

Dana Jacobsen
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