Bugzilla Bug 92232

Compiling xorg-x11-6.8.2-r1 on Alpha ev6 fails with the folwoing message:

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LD_LIBRARY_PATH=../../../exports/lib XLOCALEDIR=../../../exports/lib/locale  ../../../exports/bin/bdftopcf -t lutBS08.bdf | gzip > lutBS08.pcf.gz
make[5]: *** [lutBS08.pcf.gz] Error 139
make[5]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r1/work/xc/fonts/bdf/75dpi'
make[4]: *** [all] Error 2
make[4]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r1/work/xc/fonts/bdf'
make[3]: *** [all] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r1/work/xc/fonts'
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r1/work/xc'
make[1]: *** [World] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r1/work/xc'
make: *** [World] Error 2
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I have the folowing compiler flags: CFLAGS="-mieee -O2 -mcpu=ev6", gzip is 1.3.5-r6.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
emerge -k xorg-x11

Actual Results:  
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=../../../exports/lib XLOCALEDIR=../../../exports/lib/locale 
../../../exports/bin/bdftopcf -t lutBS08.bdf | gzip > lutBS08.pcf.gz
make[5]: *** [lutBS08.pcf.gz] Error 139
make[5]: Leaving directory
`/var/tmp/portage/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r1/work/xc/fonts/bdf/75dpi'
make[4]: *** [all] Error 2
make[4]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r1/work/xc/fonts/bdf'
make[3]: *** [all] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r1/work/xc/fonts'
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r1/work/xc'
make[1]: *** [World] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r1/work/xc'
make: *** [World] Error 2

Expected Results:  
Compile withour errors

I have reproduced this bug on a vanilla alpha gentoo install (ev4 in the ccflags).

If I emerge gzip-1.3.5-r5 by hand (not the default stable in portage) then xorg
compiles just fine. So this is properly releated to the way gzip is
patched/build in version 1.3.5-r6.

Sounds unrelated to X11, then.

This problem is brought about because the patch for alpha contained in gzip-
1.3.5-r5 was deleted by gzip-1.3.5-r6.
The patch for alpha can be obtained from the Bug report log of Debian.
Please see the following URL for details.

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=187417
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=184057

Created an attachment (id=59200) [edit]
patch for gzip-1.3.5-r6.ebuild

Created an attachment (id=59201) [edit]
patch for gzip on alpha

A file name is gzip-1.3.5-alpha.patch 

I've tested the patch (gzip-1.3.5-alpha.patch), and it fixes it for me.

Interestingly, the patched gzip-1.3.5 produced a different output from that of
the vanilla gzip-1.2.4a (the compressed files were different).  Yet they both
could be decompressed by each other's gunzip, and the decompressed files were
identical.

So I think this patch is "good-to-go"!

fixed in gzip-1.3.5-r7