[Xapian-devel] xapian 0.9.6 build error on debian etch sparc

[Alex Deucher]

On 6/15/06, Olly Betts <olly at survex.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 05:09:20PM -0400, Alex Deucher wrote:
> > -O1 seems to have done the trick.
>
> Cool.  Once it's built, can you run "make check" and check that it all
> passes (a few tests will SKIP - that's OK, it just means you haven't
> got the large files of test data).  I don't think anybody's tried
> Xapian on Linux/sparc for a while so it's an interesting result for
> the PLATFORMS file.  Running the test suite also gives you confidence
> that there hasn't been any silent miscompilation.

I'll report back when it finishes compiling.  FWIW, we've been running
xapian for ages on our debian stable SPARC boxes with no problems so
this seems to be a debian etch/gcc issue.

Alex

>
> Cheers,
>     Olly
>