On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 01:15:06AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> [ Removing #516057 as it's a closed bug about a bison error. ]
> 
> On Sat, 2009-10-24 at 18:19:51 +0200, Luk Claes wrote:
> > Can you please have a look at fixing the segfaults of iasl on non
> > i386/amd64 or do you think it would be better to remove the support of
> > iasl on non i386/amd64. If so, bochs is the only affected reverse dep of
> > iasl if you would restrict iasl to i386/amd64.
> 
> I don't see why iasl would not be able to run on any architecture,
> it's just a compiler for byte-code. We ported it some time ago, but
> it seems it has regressed in the latest upload (probably problems with
> unaligned accesses or little endian assumptions, as before).

yeah, dispite the fact that the patch applied, there were other changes
that are causing a consistent segfault.

> I might try to take a look at fixing it, but not now. Anyway regarding
> bochs, it's not really a problem as iasl is only used when building
> architecture independent packages, thus the Build-Depends-Indep.

I tried debugging it when the bug first appeared after I uploaded the
package with not much success but now I'm definitely lacking the time to
look at it.
As an emergency fix, if it's not a big deal for bochs, disabling the
failing architectures is an option.

thanks
-- 
mattia
:wq!



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