On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 4:01 PM, Michael Cree <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Excellent. Thanks Michael and Bob for the links and the explanation!

