Bug#670316: shishi: FTBFS on s390x: testsuite failure

[Aurelien Jarno]

On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 03:00:19PM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> mån 2012-07-30 klockan 20:32 +0200 skrev Aurelien Jarno:
> > retitle 670316 shishi: FTBFS on 64-bit big endian architecture: testsuite 
> > failure
> > tag 670316 + patch
> > thanks
> > 
> > On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 03:55:53PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote:
> > > Hi Simon,
> > > 
> > > thanks for the followup.
> > > 
> > > On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 02:54:15PM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> > > > Philipp Kern <address@hidden> writes:
> > > > > your package FTBFSes on s390x because of a crash / failures in the 
> > > > > testsuite:
> > > > >
> > > > > make[3]: Leaving directory
> > > > > /build/buildd-shishi_1.0.1-1-s390x-luumdM/shishi-1.0.1/tests'
> > > > > /usr/bin/make  check-TESTS
> > > > > make[3]: Entering directory
> > > > > /build/buildd-shishi_1.0.1-1-s390x-luumdM/shishi-1.0.1/tests'
> > > > > shishi_authenticator_seqnumber_get() failed
> > > > > shishi_authenticator_seqnumber_get() failed
> > > > > shishi_authenticator_client() failed
> > > > > shishi_authenticator_client() failed
> > > > > shishi_authenticator_clientrealm() failed
> > > > > shishi_authenticator_authorizationdata() failed
> > > > > shishi_authenticator_cusec_get() failed
> > > > > shishi_authenticator_ctime() failed
> > > > > FAIL: authenticator
> > > > 
> > > > Hi.  Thanks for the report.  I would either need a shell account on this
> > > > architecture, or your help in tracking this down.  Could you get a gdb
> > > > backtrace of the self-test that crashes?  Do you have any ideas on what
> > > > makes this architecture different from all the others, where it builds
> > > > and passes self-tests fine?  Does it use the same gcc/glibc/linux
> > > > versions as other build hosts?
> > > 
> > > It's 64bit big endian, which isn't the case for all other Debian 
> > > architectures
> > > (except debian-ports ppc64 and sparc64).  As a DM you can request guest 
> > > access
> > > yourself by following [1], you don't need anybody to vouch for you or
> > > something.  If you don't want to do that I can go and collect a 
> > > backtrace, but
> > > it might take a few days, too.
> > > 
> > 
> > The problem is indeed related to 64-bit big endian machines, it also
> > fails to build on ppc64 ans sparc64. This is due to casting size_t 
> > pointers (len type in shishi) into int pointers (len type in libtasn1).
> > The patch below fixes the problem. (Note that there are also plenty of
> > format warning about size_t values being printed with %u, though they
> > seem to be harmless).
> 
> Thanks for debugging this.
> 
> > 
> > Given we are in freeze period, would it be possible to upload a new
> > revision of shishi with only these changes? I believe the release team
> > would accept such a change and let the package migrate to testing.
> > shishi is important on s390x in order to get inetutils built.
> 
> Sure -- should I just upload to unstable?  If you could ask the release
> team that would be great.
> 

Yes, it's just about uploading that to unstable. Then i'll take care of
asking the release team to let it migrate it to wheezy.

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