Bug#1100681: nettle: FTBFS on ppc64 due to unconditional use of VSX instructions

John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.ports.powerpc
Message-ID <174219878937.675126.4019239202023260717.reportbug__19496.1081886262$1742198974$gmane$org@z6>
Source: nettle
Version: 3.10.1-1
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream
User: [email protected]
Usertags: ppc64
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected],[email protected]

Hello,

nettle fails to build from source on ppc64 due to uncondtional use of the lxvb16x
VSX instruction [1]:

Illegal instruction
FAIL: gcm

This seems to have been fixed upstream [1], but the fix has not been released yet.

Thanks,
Adrian

> [1] https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=nettle&arch=ppc64&ver=3.10.1-1&stamp=1739714235&raw=0
> [2] https://git.lysator.liu.se/nettle/nettle/-/commit/2dffb58ae9e11a1626aa12a1ca9432338458fb44

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