[Pkg-scicomp-devel] Bug#494031: Bug#494031: paraview_3.2.3-2(sparc/unstable): FTBFS on sparc, bus error

[Ondrej Certik]

On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 9:51 PM, Martin Zobel-Helas <zobel at ftbfs.de> wrote:
> Package: paraview
> Version: 3.2.3-2
> Severity: serious
>
> There was an error while trying to autobuild your package:
>
>> Automatic build of paraview_3.2.3-2 on spontini by sbuild/sparc 99.99
>> Build started at 20080806-0244
>
> [...]
>
>> ** Using build dependencies supplied by package:
>> Build-Depends: cdbs (>= 0.4.51), debhelper (>= 5), autotools-dev, quilt (>= 0.46-4), cmake (>= 2.4.8), libqt4-dev (>= 4.3.3-2), libopenmpi-dev, ffmpeg, libavformat-dev, libavutil-dev, libavcodec-dev, python-dev, chrpath, libglu1-mesa-dev, libxt-dev, libxext-dev, doxygen, graphviz, gnuplot
>
> [...]
>
>> [ 23%] Building C object Utilities/hdf5/CMakeFiles/H5detect.dir/H5detect.o
>> Linking C executable ../../bin/H5detect
>> make[3]: Leaving directory `/build/buildd/paraview-3.2.3/obj-sparc-linux-gnu'
>> [ 23%] Built target H5detect
>> make[3]: Entering directory `/build/buildd/paraview-3.2.3/obj-sparc-linux-gnu'
>> [ 23%] Generating H5Tinit.c
>> /bin/sh: line 1: 14931 Bus error               ../../bin/H5detect > /build/buildd/paraview-3.2.3/obj-sparc-linux-gnu/Utilities/hdf5/H5Tinit.c

Hm -- Martin, any ideas what's wrong here? Is this a hardware problem?
How can I get some access to some sparc machine to reproduce it and
see what can be done with this?

Ondrej