Comment 1 for bug 6769

On [15/11/03 19:18], Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:
> Package: john
> Version: 1.6-19
> Tags: help confirmed

> John does not build in the buildd environments for Sparc since release
> 1.6-19. It seems this is a problem in the build, and not in the package,
> since the bugs which prevented it from building [1] have been fixed in
> 1.6-22 and it still will not build [2].

> The build ends with:
[...]
> Benchmarking: Standard DES [24/32 128K]... make[3]: *** [sparc.h] Error 1

> So it seems to break in the 'bench' program (in some of the '||exit 1')
> statements there. There might be two ways to fix this:

> - try to upgrade the SPARC part to the -devel branch and see if that fixes
> it

> - drop sparc from the supported architectures (a drastic move).

I wouldn't veto against the first method since this would make maintaing
the package more difficult. Instead we might consider using the devel
branche and combining it with the documentation from the stable release,
but that still is not easy. (But at least upstream uses that for OWL.)
The latter would also be possible, but I would prefer if somebody would
investigate the build who has some knowledge about sparc. Since the
build logs show that 1.6.17 and earlier versions did build fine on
sparc. So I suppose it's some change in the build daemon or on sparc
that is responsible for this break.

Christian
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