#1076187 mescc-tools: test makes invalid assumptions about ppc64el abi

Package:
mescc-tools
Source:
mescc-tools
Description:
tools for binary bootstrapping
Submitter:
Michael Hudson-Doyle
Date:
2024-07-12 05:57:04 UTC
Severity:
normal
Tags:
#1076187#5
Date:
2024-07-12 05:54:45 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

This package fails to build in Ubuntu currently but not Debian.
Investigation seemed to reveal assumptions in the test suite that are
not valid, so it is possible it will start failing in Debian with kernel
changes or similar.

I filed an upstream bug https://github.com/oriansj/mescc-tools/issues/47
and applied a simple fix in Ubuntu:

  * d/patches/issue47.diff: Do not assume R0 is 0 at process start up on
    in the ppc64el test.

Thanks for considering the patch.

Cheers,
mwh