Bug#751828: pcre3: FTBFS [ppc64el]: Test failure in common with amd64

2014-07-21 Thread Mark Baker
Thanks for the patch. In fact I was intending to do an upload yesterday, and held off when I saw this message. Looking at the bugs you filed on PCRE and glib (thanks), it looks like I should go ahead with a pcre 8.35 release, and glib will have to deal with this, do you agree? On 20 Jul 2014,

Bug#751828: pcre3: FTBFS [ppc64el]: Test failure in common with amd64

2014-07-21 Thread Simon McVittie
On Mon, 21 Jul 2014 at 22:18:47 +0100, Mark Baker wrote: Thanks for the patch. In fact I was intending to do an upload yesterday, and held off when I saw this message. Looking at the bugs you filed on PCRE and glib (thanks), it looks like I should go ahead with a pcre 8.35 release, and glib

Bug#751828: pcre3: FTBFS [ppc64el]: Test failure in common with amd64

2014-07-20 Thread Simon McVittie
On Thu, 17 Jul 2014 at 10:38:24 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: If min gets larger than 214748365 (slightly more than 2^31 / 10) in any given iteration, then the next multiplication by 10 is a signed integer overflow, which is formally undefined behaviour in C. This was already reported as

Bug#751828: pcre3: FTBFS [ppc64el]: Test failure in common with amd64

2014-07-20 Thread Simon McVittie
On Sun, 20 Jul 2014 at 16:07:06 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: This was already reported as http://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1463 and fixed upstream as part of r1472. However, the upstream fix did not update the expected output, so the tests still fail. The upstream fix did in fact update

Bug#751828: pcre3: FTBFS [ppc64el]: Test failure in common with amd64

2014-07-20 Thread Simon McVittie
On Sun, 20 Jul 2014 at 18:56:01 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: However, I haven't done so yet, because the updated pcre3 seems to trigger a test failure in the pcre consumer I'm mainly interested in (GLib), and I want to be sure that these changes aren't what's to blame for that. They are

Bug#751828: pcre3: FTBFS [ppc64el]: Test failure in common with amd64

2014-07-17 Thread Simon McVittie
tags 751828 + patch retitle 751828 pcre3: FTBFS: test failure: no longer produces number too big in {} quantifier found 751828 1:8.35-2 thanks On Wed, 18 Jun 2014 at 11:38:11 -0300, Mauricio Faria de Oliveira wrote: /a{}/I -Failed: number too big in {}

Bug#751828: pcre3: FTBFS [ppc64el]: Test failure in common with amd64

2014-06-18 Thread Mauricio Faria de Oliveira
Package: src:pcre3 User: debian-powe...@lists.debian.org Usertags: ppc64el This bug also affects ppc64el (no JIT). Documenting the same pattern as comment above, from test-suite.log: [...] FAIL: RunTest = [...] Testing 8-bit library