Hi Gregor, On Sun, 2025-10-19 at 15:29 +0200, Gregor Riepl wrote: > > Thanks for verifying this. Looking closer at the texlive-bin package, it > > actually contains a > > large patch which modifies the zziplib package, see: > > > > https://sources.debian.org/src/texlive-bin/2025.20250727.75242%2Bds-4/debian/patches/zziplib.diff > > > > I have extracted the zziplib-aligned-access.m4 m4 script from there and I'm > > attaching it. > > > > Can you give it a try? > > This looks more promising, but still no dice (after renaming > ZZIPLIB_CHECK_ALIGNED_ACCESS to AX_CHECK_ALIGNED_ACCESS_REQUIRED): > > checking if pointers to integers require aligned access... no > > I guess that makes sense, the fourth argument of AC_RUN_IFELSE() will only > execute when cross compiling[1]. > While the script is certainly cleaner this way, it will still fail for cases > where the test script can't > detect the alignment behavior of the host CPU. > > I really think the only fix here is to skip the AC_RUN_IFELSE for CPU types > that are known to always > require aligned access (such as sparc and sparc64). Or write a better test > program that works on sparc.
OK, I'll have a look myself. I mean, if it works for texlive-bin, I don't see why it shouldn't work for xdelta3. I want to avoid hacking a custom solution when there is a commonly adopted m4 script. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
