On Mon, Sep 07, 2015 at 11:34:43AM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: > With unstable, this happens from time to time. At the moment, I've > got 203 held packages as follows: > > Michael -- if you've got any insight as to where we left the rails, I'd > be happy to put an extra set of eyes and hands on it as time permits.
Yes, we are currently going backwards on Alpha. The main problem is that cmake FTBFS (Bug #789807) thus a growing proportion of the archive is unbuildable on Alpha. That bug has got me beat. The problem is deep in the C++ code and I am not a C++ programmer. The last comment suggests it might be a compiler bug. While possible, I suggest that it could also be that cmake has wandered into the realms of undefined behaviour, i.e. is trying to access a variable at byte granularity whereas the compiler has determined that it can only be long word aligned. Cheers Michael.