Bug 627834

Summary:	sys-kernel/spl-0.7.1 erroneously refuses to build with CONFIG_PAX_SIZE_OVERFLOW set
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	gentoobugs
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Richard Yao (RETIRED) <ryao>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal	CC:	fearedbliss, sam
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description gentoobugs 2017-08-14 15:27:02 UTC

spl with PAX_SIZE_OVERFLOW would previously trip an overflow warning (see https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=546488). As I understand it, this prompted the addition of "!PAX_SIZE_OVERFLOW" to CONFIG_CHECK in the ebuild. 

When the bug was fixed, "!PAX_SIZE_OVERFLOW" was again removed from the ebuild (see https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/sys-kernel/spl/spl-0.6.5.3-r1.ebuild?id=5f7e82db697844802307daae159dbdff6740b6cb). 

However, ebuilds for later versions of spl (>=0.6.5.6) have added this restriction again, apparently without any explanation or reason (afaict searching google and bugs.gentoo.org). Since I can find no reason for this, I assume some kind of mistake was made when writing the later ebuilds and that "!PAX_SIZE_OVERFLOW" should be removed from CONFIG_CHECK in the ebuild.

Comment 1 Sam James archtester

2021-03-01 11:06:09 UTC

We removed sys-kernel/spl some time ago.