Re: Bug#917199: pivy, unbuildable on mips* due to testsuite failures in patchelf.
On Sun, Jan 13, 2019 at 05:22:18PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, 12 Jan 2019, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > pyside2 is now built without patchelf on mips64el.
> >
> > Doing the same for mips and mipsel should fix the problem for pivy.
>
> Yeah, but this is not going in the right direction. This means that
> pyside will be built with the embedded patchelf. The embedded patchelf is
> outdated. But it will build and do its work...
>
> Really, if the test suite failure can't be fixed quickly, it would be
> better to ignore the failure on the broken architectures and let the
> package build anyway. It's unlikely that the tool is entirely broken...
Test cases that passed in patchelf 0.8 fail since 0.9,
and segmentation fault on things like setting rpath
might be close enough to "entirely broken".
> and it's just a pity to ask pyside to deal with a varying set of
> architectures for patchelf.
No disagreement on that, but unfortunately it seems to be the best
available short-term fix.
> Cheers,
cu
Adrian
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