There are a couple issues that cause syck to FTBFS on my system. One is an undeclared build-dep on re2c. Without re2c installed, my build fails like so:
then mv -f ".deps/yaml2byte.Tpo" ".deps/yaml2byte.Po"; else rm -f ".deps/yaml2byte.Tpo"; exit 1; fi yaml2byte.c: In function `syck_yaml2byte_handler': yaml2byte.c:192: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules yaml2byte.c:202: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules yaml2byte.c:205: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules yaml2byte.c: In function `syck_yaml2byte': yaml2byte.c:230: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules re2c token.re > token.c.new && mv token.c.new token.c /bin/sh: re2c: command not found make[3]: *** [token.c] Error 127 make[3]: Leaving directory `/space/debian/syck-0.42/lib' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/space/debian/syck-0.42' make[1]: *** [all] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/space/debian/syck-0.42' make: *** [debian/stamp-makefile-build] Error 2 The second issue is what is likely causing the test cases to fail, and that is some missing includes. Without these includes, pointers returned by functions are assumed to be integers, and are therefore truncated on 64-bit systems where pointers are larger than integers. This patch fixes both issues.
diff -urN syck-0.42.orig/lib/syck.c syck-0.42/lib/syck.c --- syck-0.42.orig/lib/syck.c 2005-05-04 09:08:10.646628000 -0600 +++ syck-0.42/lib/syck.c 2005-05-04 09:42:29.352658029 -0600 @@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ * Copyright (C) 2003 why the lucky stiff */ #include <stdio.h> +#include <stdlib.h> #include <string.h> #include "syck.h" diff -urN syck-0.42.orig/debian/control syck-0.42/debian/control --- syck-0.42.orig/debian/control 2005-05-04 09:08:10.657370000 -0600 +++ syck-0.42/debian/control 2005-05-04 09:27:26.942512833 -0600 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Priority: optional Section: devel Maintainer: Robert Jordens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 4.1.67), cdbs, dh-buildinfo, flex, python2.3-dev, python-dev, php4-dev (>= 4:4.3.10-10) +Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 4.1.67), cdbs, dh-buildinfo, flex, python2.3-dev, python-dev, php4-dev (>= 4:4.3.10-10), re2c Standards-Version: 3.6.1 Package: libsyck0-dev diff -urN syck-0.42.orig/lib/bytecode.c syck-0.42/lib/bytecode.c --- syck-0.42.orig/lib/bytecode.c 2004-04-30 06:31:06.000000000 -0600 +++ syck-0.42/lib/bytecode.c 2005-05-04 09:18:16.585097700 -0600 @@ -8,6 +8,10 @@ * * Copyright (C) 2003 why the lucky stiff */ + +#include <stdlib.h> +#include <string.h> + #include "syck.h" #include "gram.h" diff -urN syck-0.42.orig/lib/handler.c syck-0.42/lib/handler.c --- syck-0.42.orig/lib/handler.c 2004-04-30 06:31:06.000000000 -0600 +++ syck-0.42/lib/handler.c 2005-05-04 09:18:25.057753846 -0600 @@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ * Copyright (C) 2003 why the lucky stiff */ +#include <stdlib.h> +#include <string.h> + #include "syck.h" SYMID diff -urN syck-0.42.orig/lib/implicit.re syck-0.42/lib/implicit.re --- syck-0.42.orig/lib/implicit.re 2004-04-30 06:31:06.000000000 -0600 +++ syck-0.42/lib/implicit.re 2005-05-04 09:19:31.928846777 -0600 @@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ * Copyright (C) 2003 why the lucky stiff */ +#include <stdlib.h> #include "syck.h" #define YYCTYPE char diff -urN syck-0.42.orig/lib/node.c syck-0.42/lib/node.c --- syck-0.42.orig/lib/node.c 2004-04-30 06:31:06.000000000 -0600 +++ syck-0.42/lib/node.c 2005-05-04 09:18:30.621230341 -0600 @@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ * Copyright (C) 2003 why the lucky stiff */ +#include <stdlib.h> +#include <string.h> + #include "syck.h" /* diff -urN syck-0.42.orig/lib/token.re syck-0.42/lib/token.re --- syck-0.42.orig/lib/token.re 2004-04-30 06:31:06.000000000 -0600 +++ syck-0.42/lib/token.re 2005-05-04 09:19:06.444472089 -0600 @@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ * * Copyright (C) 2003 why the lucky stiff */ +#include <stdlib.h> +#include <string.h> #include "syck.h" #include "gram.h" diff -urN syck-0.42.orig/lib/yaml2byte.c syck-0.42/lib/yaml2byte.c --- syck-0.42.orig/lib/yaml2byte.c 2004-04-30 06:31:06.000000000 -0600 +++ syck-0.42/lib/yaml2byte.c 2005-05-04 09:18:47.227675450 -0600 @@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ // WARNING WARNING WARNING --- THIS IS *NOT JUST* PLAYING // ANYMORE! -- WHY HAS EMBRACED THIS AS THE REAL THING! // +#include <stdlib.h> +#include <string.h> #include <syck.h> #include <assert.h> #define YAMLBYTE_UTF8
