Bug#750358: Is bug 769265 relevant?

2014-11-24 Thread Jeffrey Kegler
The symptoms were different, but perhaps this is a similar problem to that fixed for i386 in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=769265 There the issue was that the customizations to Marpa::R2's build for the Debian build mixed up the C compiler flags, so that the target was

Bug#769265: Patch for lib/Marpa/R2.pm

2014-11-23 Thread Jeffrey Kegler
[Jeffrey: as a summary, I think this is a bug in the Debian packaging. It looks to me like Marpa::R2::Build_Me is doing the right thing but the packaging tells Module::Build to ignore that.] I suspected something like this. I do a lot of bit-twiddling in C. While I sweat those details, I

Bug#769265: Patch for lib/Marpa/R2.pm

2014-11-23 Thread Jeffrey Kegler
Please ignore the s390 remarks. I've confused the two on-going Marpa::R2 bug threads. -- jeffrey On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 12:47 PM, Niko Tyni nt...@debian.org wrote: clone 769265 -1 retitle -1 cdbs: perl-build-vars.mk overrides $Config{ccflags} reassign -1 cdbs 0.4.127 # maybe serious, not

Bug#769265: Patch for lib/Marpa/R2.pm

2014-11-22 Thread Jeffrey Kegler
I recommend upgrading to the latest Marpa::R2, which includes among other things, some Debian-targeted fixes. If that is not possible, and you really need to patch instead, you can start with the one which follows. It fixes some over-engineering on my part, together with an outright screw-up

Bug#769265: Note on patch just emailed

2014-11-22 Thread Jeffrey Kegler
By the way, in case you didn't catch it, you may not be able to use the patch cannot be used quite as is. It advances the version #, which, if you're just patching and not upgrading, you will not wish to do. Thanks, jeffrey kegler