[Bug 876881] Re: does e2fsprogs work on powerpc?

[Theodore Ts'o]

I looked at LP#450214,  and was very confused how it was decided there
was a toolchain bug that was causing a problem with e2fsprogs
(especially when the bug title talked about gparted hanging when
formatting a swap partition).

In any case, I know there are folks at IBM testing e2fsprogs 1.42-WIP
with PowerPC, but given that it's not clear to me what the original
symptoms of the bug was at the e2fsprogs level were (as opposed to
gparted hanging when formatting a swap partition), I can't even begin to
investigate what the original bug might have been.

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Title:
  does e2fsprogs work on powerpc?

Status in “e2fsprogs” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “e2fsprogs” source package in Precise:
  New

Bug description:
  Since karmic, the e2fsprogs udeb has been built with -O2 instead of
  -Os on powerpc because of bug #450214, which was presumed at the time
  to be a toolchain bug.  It doesn't look like a bug was ever filed
  against the toolchain for this, and it doesn't appear the issue has
  ever been reported in Debian, so it's likely that whatever the issue
  was, it was transient and has since been resolved.

  However, with no information about what the toolchain bug actually
  *was*, we can't be sure of this without testing.

  I've dropped the -Os workaround in the latest merge of e2fsprogs from
  Debian.  We should retest at alpha-1 to see if the installer is usable
  on powerpc without this workaround.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: e2fsprogs 1.41.14-1ubuntu3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Mon Oct 17 14:28:00 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100816.1)
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: e2fsprogs
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-23 (23 days ago)

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