Hi Paul,
Please take a look at YunQiang's explanation of what is going on. -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Bug#983706: gzip FTBFS on mips64el: FAIL: timestamp Resent-Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2021 10:54:34 +0000 Resent-From: YunQiang Su <[email protected]> Resent-To: [email protected] Resent-CC: Milan Kupcevic <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2021 18:52:50 +0800 From: YunQiang Su <[email protected]> Reply-To: YunQiang Su <[email protected]>, [email protected] To: Adrian Bunk <[email protected]> CC: [email protected], [email protected] [...] With some digging, we found the real problem: mips64 has y2106 problem the struct stat in asm/stat.h, the timestamp is unsigned int (uint32_t), so in the SYS_stat, -1 is converted to 0xffffff. Then in glibc wrapper of stat, 0xffffffff need to convert to int64_t, then, it is converted to 2016. So, current, for gzip, we can just ignore the test fails on mips64el. To solve this problem: I guess that we can wrap `statx' instead of `stat' in glibc. Since the timestamp in bits/stat.h is 64bit, there will no ABI broken. [...] -- YunQiang Su
