Hi Bruno, If you have access to the ppc64el hardware, could you test the fix (I've attached a diff, which is to be applied to the 2.1.0-15 sources)? If it's okay, I'll ask the release team about a stable update.
Cheers! -- Sergei Golovan
diff -Nru tclreadline-2.1.0/debian/changelog tclreadline-2.1.0/debian/changelog --- tclreadline-2.1.0/debian/changelog 2016-10-08 12:04:28.000000000 +0300 +++ tclreadline-2.1.0/debian/changelog 2016-10-08 12:04:28.000000000 +0300 @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +tclreadline (2.1.0-15+deb9u1) stretch; urgency=medium + + * Add a patch by Breno Leitao which fixes building the shared library for + the ppc64el architecture (closes: #897429). + + -- Sergei Golovan <sgolo...@debian.org> Sat, 08 Oct 2016 12:04:28 +0300 + tclreadline (2.1.0-15) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed implicit function declararion warning (replaced the deprecated diff -Nru tclreadline-2.1.0/debian/patches/ppc64el.patch tclreadline-2.1.0/debian/patches/ppc64el.patch --- tclreadline-2.1.0/debian/patches/ppc64el.patch 1970-01-01 03:00:00.000000000 +0300 +++ tclreadline-2.1.0/debian/patches/ppc64el.patch 2016-10-08 12:04:28.000000000 +0300 @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +Author: Breno Leitao +Description: Patch fixes building the shared library for ppc64el. +Last-Modified: Wed, 02 May 2018 21:11:16 +0300 +Debian-Bug: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=897429 + +--- a/aux/ltconfig ++++ b/aux/ltconfig +@@ -2000,7 +2000,6 @@ + else + # Only the GNU ld.so supports shared libraries on MkLinux. + case "$host_cpu" in +- powerpc*) dynamic_linker=no ;; + *) dynamic_linker='Linux ld.so' ;; + esac + fi diff -Nru tclreadline-2.1.0/debian/patches/series tclreadline-2.1.0/debian/patches/series --- tclreadline-2.1.0/debian/patches/series 2016-10-08 12:04:28.000000000 +0300 +++ tclreadline-2.1.0/debian/patches/series 2016-10-08 12:04:28.000000000 +0300 @@ -12,3 +12,4 @@ functions.patch ding.patch stubs.patch +ppc64el.patch
