Re: Bug#796069: protobuf: FTBFS on mips{,el} (test suite failure)

On 26/08/15 00:52, Simon McVittie wrote:
> If it's any help, this is reproducible on minkus.debian.org (mips, Octeon),
> but is not reproducible with DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noopt on the same machine.
> So it might be possible to coax it into working (well enough to get
> through this transition) by reducing or omitting optimization on mips.

The same thing happened on eder: a build with noopt passes its tests.

To keep the g++-5 transition moving, I'm tempted to NMU a version of
protobuf that builds with -O0 on mips{,el}, and drop this bug down to
important severity; and then the mips porters and the protobuf
maintainers can work out what is actually going on and do a more
targeted fix, without stalling various transitions in the meantime. Does
that seem a reasonable plan?

    S