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

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Hi

On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 10:57:35PM -0700, Dana Jacobsen wrote:
> 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.

Thank you!

Regards,
Salvatore