On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 03:18:46PM -0700, Matt Turner wrote: > On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 12:33 AM, Michael Cree <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 12:05:54AM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: > >> On Tue, Sep 08, 2015 at 07:56:29AM +1200, Michael Cree wrote: > >> > The main problem is > >> > that cmake FTBFS (Bug #789807) thus a growing proportion of the > >> > archive is unbuildable on Alpha. > >> > >> See your private e-mail. I may have a handle on this beast. Won't > >> burden the rest of the list with my speculation unless it pans out :-). > > > > Bob's speculation did pan out and we now have a working cmake! Thank > > you Bob, you have enabled Alpha to survive another day. > > Some information would be nice... what was the problem? What was the > solution? What versions are affected?
Debian bug: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=789807 Upstream bug with patch: http://www.cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=15736 Bug potentially affects all architectures but only by accident of layout of binary executable showed up on Alpha. Cheers Michael.

