Re: GnuTLS 2.9.12 - third and final (?) release candidate for 2.10.0

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2010-06-18 Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> wrote:
> Andreas Metzler <address@hidden> writes:
[...]
>> a workaround for http://bugs.debian.org/519006 would be nice, 2.9.x
>> does not build on mips(el). (See e.g.
>> http://bugs.debian.org/585476)

> That is a toolchain bug on mips(el), and we don't know how to work
> around it in GnuTLS.

> I'm not sure I see why we should work around it either, the bug affects
> so many debian packages now (coreutils, m4, unistring, libidn, ...) so

Fair enough. I have worked around the issue now by building without -g
on mips(el), which seems to have been a success:
https://buildd.debian.org/build.php?pkg=gnutls26&arch=mips&ver=2.9.12-2

> the proper fix is to fix the bug in binutils.

Afaiu the bug is actually in gcc-4.4 (4.5 is supposed to be ok).
cu andreas