[Pkg-corba-devel] progress on the omniorb4 FTBFS on arm

[Thomas Girard]

Hello Floris,

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 06:04:08PM +0000, Floris Bruynooghe wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 04:18:52PM -0000, tgg at users.alioth.debian.org wrote:
> > +ifeq ($(DEB_HOST_ARCH_CPU),arm)
> > +  confflags += --disable-alloca
> >  endif
> 
> I've finally managed to find time to get qemu running as an ARM
> machine.  I tried both before and after this fix and in both cases
> omnicpp segfaults.

:-(

I was about to try on the Debian arm porter machine, but it seems dead.

> I should have time next week to actually dig into gdb to see if I can
> make sense out of it.

Great! I'm also working on this, hopefully we will find something.
It's really bad that omniorb4 cannot migrate to testing.

> On another note, Duncan has released the new bugfix releases of
> omniORB and omniORBpy.  I'll first have a go at this issue but if not
> I'll upgrade our repo to them.  The release notes don't mention
> anything about omnicpp or ARM...

I'm afraid it will not change anything. I also have considered dropping
omnicpp in favor of cpp (because that would work around our FTBFS), but
then found that's how it was before[1].

Regards,

Thomas

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=267952