Hi, There are some useful info in the discussion at: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gzip/+bug/49067
Apparently fedora (et.al.) has nowadays abandoned their patch in favour of using 'export DEFS="NO_ASM"' in the spec file, see https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/gzip/tree/master Their changelog also comes with this interesting claim: "- don't use the asm code again as it's slower than the gcc compiled one" Googling "gzip DEFS NO_ASM" gives a number of matches including openembedded, coreos, etc. It seems it's pretty common to disable the (i386) assembler code and given the benefits it seems to have, I think it would be useful for debian to also do that. For potential convenience I'm attaching an untested debdiff which I hope someone can help test and verify on i386. Regards, Andreas Henriksson PS. Please also note fedora seems to be carrying a patch for glibc 2.28 which might be useful in debian soon as well. https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/gzip/blob/master/f/gnulib.patch
diff -Nru gzip-1.9/debian/changelog gzip-1.9/debian/changelog --- gzip-1.9/debian/changelog 2018-08-05 02:30:09.000000000 +0200 +++ gzip-1.9/debian/changelog 2018-08-29 11:40:01.000000000 +0200 @@ -1,3 +1,11 @@ +gzip (1.9-2.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium + + * Non-maintainer upload. + * Disable usage of assembler code (Closes: #890279) + - fedora claims gcc generates more optimized code anyway. + + -- Andreas Henriksson <andr...@fatal.se> Wed, 29 Aug 2018 11:40:01 +0200 + gzip (1.9-2) unstable; urgency=medium * move to upstream's less-ugly fix for mingw compilation failure diff -Nru gzip-1.9/debian/rules gzip-1.9/debian/rules --- gzip-1.9/debian/rules 2018-08-05 02:30:09.000000000 +0200 +++ gzip-1.9/debian/rules 2018-08-29 11:40:01.000000000 +0200 @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ endif endif +export DEFS=NO_ASM # Avoid TEXTRELs on i386 EXTRA_CFLAGS= -Wall EXTRA_CPPFLAGS=
