Hi Gregor, On Tue, 2025-10-14 at 10:46 +0200, Gregor Riepl wrote: > Hi Adrian, > > > This should be reported upstream, see: > > > > https://github.com/jmacd/xdelta/issues > > > > The testsuite also fails with unaligned access: > > > > https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=xdelta3&arch=sparc64&ver=3.0.11-dfsg-1.2&stamp=1757507449&raw=0 > > > > I can file the bug report. > > That would be much appreciated, thanks!
I looked at upstream and the project seems to be dead, no changes since 2016. > Interestingly, xdelta3 already contains code to detect and account for > unaligned > memory access. There's an m4 script that's supposed to do the detection > (m4/ax_check_aligned_access_required.m4), but it seems like it's not doing > its job correctly. > > By putting the following into debian/rules, the script can be bypassed: > > override_dh_auto_configure: > dh_auto_configure $@ -- ax_cv_have_aligned_access_required=yes Interesting, so it might not be broken at all? > This makes the bus error go away. The pristine-tar build is still failing, > but this might have other reasons. You mean the unpatched source? Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
