Comment 4 for bug 1343945

Hi,

On 19-07-14 13:00, Paul Gevers wrote:
> On 19-07-14 11:49, Yavor Doganov wrote:
>> Paul Gevers wrote:
>>> gnustep-base is failing in Ubuntu on powerpc and ppc64el while it
>>> worked in the past.
>>
>> Very unfortunate. Does it build on all other architecures?
>
> No, only succeeded on arm (64 and hf).

But the build "error" is different on amd64. It times out in one of the
testcases.
--- Running tests in base/NSOperation ---

Session terminated, terminating
shell.../usr/share/GNUstep/Makefiles/Master/serial-subdirectories.make:53:
recipe for target 'internal-check' failed
make[1]: *** [internal-check] Terminated
debian/rules:140: recipe for target 'debian/build-shared-stamp' failed
make: *** [debian/build-shared-stamp] Terminated
GNUmakefile:61: recipe for target 'check' failed
make[2]: *** [check] Terminated
 ...terminated.
Build killed with signal 15 after 60 minutes of inactivity

>>> The error in both builds is following. Do you have any idea why objc
>>> would be not working for gnustep-base? Would this be a bug in objc
>>> or should we (I) fix something for gnustep-base.
>>
>> I need config.log to analyze this. Can you obtain it?
>
> I have no idea, but I expect not. I think will create a Ubuntu chroot
> and build myself (on amd64) so I can add it here.

And of course it succeeds in my chroot. So it seems something specific
for the build servers. Actually, the current behavior was already
reported in [1].

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnustep-base/+bug/1277975

I propose to build without the tests until the underlaying problem is
fixed. Any objections?

Paul