Bug#442854: hex-a-hop: [m68k] FTBFS: packfile.h:57: error: size of array 'static_assert1' is negative

[Jens Seidel]

On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 02:46:32PM +0200, Bas Wijnen wrote:
> Package: hex-a-hop
> Version: 0.0.20070315-5
> Severity: Serious
> Justification: FTBFS
> 
> The package fails to build on m68k, see
> http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?&pkg=hex-a-hop&ver=0.0.20070315-5&arch=m68k&stamp=1189827580&file=log
> 
> g++ -Wall -W -g -DUSE_GETTEXT -O2 -D_VERSION=\"1.0.0\" -DDATA_DIR=\"/usr/share/games/hex-a-hop\" `sdl-config --cflags`  -c -o hex_puzzzle.o hex_puzzzle.cpp
> packfile.h:57: error: size of array 'static_assert1' is negative
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Oops, I explitely added this test and now I wonder whether I should be
happy that this error was found or not :-)

I do not have access to a m68k machine. Bas, could you please provide
the output of typeof(Entry), where Entry is defined in packfile.h?
If it is smaller as 8 I can probably add some dummy data the other way
is probably a little bit more difficult (how to change the alignment of
data?).

The problem is that hex-a-hop reads a char data stream and interprets it as
an array of type Entry. I knew that this could cause trouble so I added the
assert test.

Is the build machine a 64 bit system?

Jens