Bug#883043: ffcall: FTBFS on hppa: minitests segmentation fault

[Sébastien Villemot]

Hi Aaron,

On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 09:37:20PM -0500, Aaron M. Ucko wrote:
> Source: ffcall
> Version: 2.0-2
> Severity: important
> Tags: upstream
> Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the past)
> User: debian-hppa at lists.debian.org
> Usertags: hppa
> 
> Builds of ffcall 2.0 for hppa (admittedly not a release architecture)
> have been failing:
> 
>   ./minitests > minitests.out
>   Segmentation fault
> 
> I don't have additional details, but perhaps you can reproduce the
> error on a porter box.  IIRC, hppa (at least under HP/UX) is notable
> for having a stack that grows up rather than down, but that may be a
> red herring.

I don't think the stack direction is the problem, because upstream is well
aware of all these architectural details.

I would be happy to debug this, but according to db.debian.org, there is no
hppa porterbox (same for m68k, sh4 and powerpcspe).

Best,

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