On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 11:59:51AM -0500, David Matthew Mattli wrote: > Package: qgis > Version: 1.7.4+1.7.5~20120320-1.1 > Severity: important > Tags: > > Dear Maintainer, > > qgis currently fails to build on powerpc. The problem seems to be > the src/core/spatialite/spatialite.c file which somehow makes > gcc emit code that the assembler rejects. I have two powerpc > systems that I've reproduced the problem on. They have identical > output to buildd log: > https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=qgis&arch=powerpc&ver=1.7.4%2B1.7.5~20120320-1.1&stamp=1337680851 > > I tried to build with both gcc-4.6 and gcc-4.7 but get the > same errors. >
It is a well known issue triggered by the size of the file for both compilers on that arch. > qgis has libspatialite-dev as a build-dep and libspatialite3 as > a depedency of the binary package, through libgdal1, so why not > use the external libspatialite ? > > I removed the comment from the line > CMAKE_OPTS += -D WITH_INTERNAL_SPATIALITE=FALSE > in the debian/rules file and the package builds fine. > > The maintainers of qgis say that the amalgamated version of > spatialite.c included with qgis is mainly for windows support: > http://hub.qgis.org/issues/4030 > Unfortunately the wheezy version of spatialite has the same issue. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org