[Pkg-squeak-devel] Bug#862576: etoys: Doesn't get beyond Squeak security key generation

[Bert Freudenberg]

@James: You can press alt-. (period) in Etoys to see what it's doing - this
should also create a SqueakDebug.log file which you can attach. However,
this sounds like a squeak-vm bug, not Etoys.

@Adrian: Thanks for finding a work-around!

​CC'ing Dave Lewis, our ​VM guy ...

​- Bert -​

On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 11:28 AM, Adrian Bunk <bunk at debian.org> wrote:

> Control: reassign -1 squeak-vm 4.10.2.2614-4
> Control: affects -1 etoys
>
> On Sun, Jun 04, 2017 at 10:23:51PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> > This issue is going to cause etags to be removed from Stretch.  Anyone
> have any idea what is wrong?
>
> It seems better optimization in recent gcc versions exposes bugs
> in squeak-vm.
>
> The following workaround to use less optimization works for me:
>
> --- debian/rules.old    2017-06-06 09:04:49.000000000 +0000
> +++ debian/rules        2017-06-06 09:20:17.000000000 +0000
> @@ -6,6 +6,9 @@
>  # This has to be exported to make some magic below work.
>  export DH_OPTIONS
>
> +# workaround for #862576
> +export DEB_CFLAGS_MAINT_APPEND = -O1
> +
>  include /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/upstream-tarball.mk
>  include /usr/share/cdbs/1/class/cmake.mk
>  include /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/debhelper.mk
>
>
> This is a short-term workaround for stretch.
>
> Additionally adding -Wall gives tons of warnings for non-harmless
> issues, that's a good starting point when searching for a proper fix.
>
>
> > Happy hacking
> > Petter Reinholdtsen
>
> cu
> Adrian
>
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