Help with rawhide build failure on ppc64

[David Woodhouse]

On Sun, 2008-03-02 at 22:06 +0100, Mary Ellen Foster wrote:
> Hello! I'm a co-maintainer for the pl (SWI Prolog) package in Fedora.
> The latest package is breaking when we try to build it on ppc64, and
> we'd like some help in figuring out why. Here's a recent Koji build
> that failed:
>     http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=472959
> 
> As part of the build process, a Prolog interpreter is created and is
> then used to bootstrap the rest of the build. On i386, x86_64, and
> ppc, this works fine, but on ppc64 the interpreter segfaults the first
> time it is used (as shown in the logs linked above).
> 
> Neither I nor the primary maintainer have any experience with or
> access to ppc64 machines, so we'd appreciate any help you can give in
> figuring out what's going on here.

If you let me have a SSH public key (each), I can give you accounts on a
suitable machine. I'll also try to take a look myself.

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dwmw2