Bug#650151: FTBFS on Alpha: Some tweaks needed

[Michael Cree]

On 27/11/11 22:20, Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 01:52:09PM +1300, Michael Cree wrote:
>> Iceweasel FTBFS on Alpha. Build log is at:
>> http://buildd.debian-ports.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=iceweasel&arch=alpha&ver=8.0-3&stamp=1320898779
>>
>> The following tweaks are all that are needed to build a working iceweasel.

> 
> Seriously, I doubt this is all that is needed. I would be surprised if
> the resulting binary actually works and passes the test suites.

Well, it built and I had a browser up and running, and, yeah, I was very
(pleasently) surprised!

Admittedly there are lots of TEST-UNEXPECTED-FAIL in the build log, but
I just checked the build logs for armel and ia64 and they are littered
with such messages too.  So we are in good company.

I also noted many unaligned memory accesses due to iceweasel reported in
the kernel log.  They are typically just really inefficient as they
invoke a trap into the kernel to complete the memory access.

Cheers
Michael.