Re: Bug#878284: mozjs52: FTBFS on mips: thousands of TEST-UNEXPECTED-FAIL

Control: severity 878284 serious

On Thu, 12 Oct 2017 at 23:22:27 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> The test failures clearly indicate at least one bug, but it isn't clear
> what the severity of that bug is: it could be anything from minor (if
> trivial functionality is broken) to RC (if mozjs52 is basically unusable
> on this architecture).

Summarizing for those not following #debian-gnome:

It appears that the mips test failures are actually quite bad (as
indicated by there being thousands of them rather than just a few),
and might be causing #878519. Adrian Bunk has been looking into a
solution.

My changes in pkg-gnome git are not believed to be sufficient: in
addition to turning off the JIT, Adrian says we need to fix atomic
operations to not use jit/none/AtomicOperations-none.h. (It isn't
at all clear to me why disabling the JIT has any effect on the atomic
operations used, but that's how it's written...)

    smcv