tesseract: FTBFS on ppc64el with undefined reference to `__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform'

Trupti <[email protected]> Tue, 03 Mar 2026 18:29:39 +0530
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.ports.powerpc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Package: src:tesseract
Version:  5.5.0-1
Severity: important
Tags: ftbfs
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
User: [email protected]
Usertags: ppc64el


Dear Maintainer,

tesseract fails to build from source on ppc64el with below is the error:

/usr/bin/powerpc64le-linux-gnu-ld.bfd: 
/usr/lib/gcc/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/15/libgcc.a(float128-ifunc.o):(.data+0x0): 
undefined reference to `__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[3]: *** [Makefile:3693: libtesseract.la] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory '/build/reproducible-path/tesseract-5.5.0'
make[2]: *** [Makefile:8022: all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/build/reproducible-path/tesseract-5.5.0'
make[1]: *** [debian/rules:22: override_dh_auto_build] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/build/reproducible-path/tesseract-5.5.0'
make: *** [debian/rules:19: binary-arch] Error 2
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules binary-arch subprocess failed 
with exit status 2


This is the build log on ppc64el for reference :

https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=tesseract&arch=ppc64el&ver=5.5.0-1%2Bb3&stamp=1772392220&raw=0


Thanks,
Trupti