Package: src:ntp Version: 1:4.2.8p14+dfsg-2 Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream
Hi, Bernhard Schmidt. First of all, thanks for your work on Debian and NTP, specifically. So, I noticed during a recent update of ntpdate, that the testsuite was disabled on ppc64el, an architecture I care about, hence the curiosity. While investigating the problems, I noticed they seem to amount to link errors when building the tests. It looks like some of them link to ntp_config.o, and some symbols are not found, because some other objects are not included during that build. So, the fix would be simply a matter of exhaustively finding out which objects need to be included. So, why doesn't this fail on amd64 or other arches? So, the tests are linked using -Wl,--gc-sections, which removes unused sections from the linking process, but work differently depending on arch. On ppc64el, some sections are still left and missing symbols referred to by those sections lead to the link failure. I hope I could shed some light into the problem and help your or someone else come up with the fix for it. Maybe I could do it myself, I just may not have the time right now, but wouldn't like to leave the investigating work undocumented. Thank you very much. Cascardo. -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 5.4.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled
