Hi Paul,
Please take a look at YunQiang's explanation of what is going on.
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Subject: Bug#983706: gzip FTBFS on mips64el: FAIL: timestamp
Resent-Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2021 10:54:34 +0000
Resent-From: YunQiang Su <wzss...@gmail.com>
Resent-To: debian-bugs-d...@lists.debian.org
Resent-CC: Milan Kupcevic <mi...@debian.org>
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2021 18:52:50 +0800
From: YunQiang Su <wzss...@gmail.com>
Reply-To: YunQiang Su <wzss...@gmail.com>, 983...@bugs.debian.org
To: Adrian Bunk <b...@debian.org>
CC: 983...@bugs.debian.org, debian-m...@lists.debian.org
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With some digging, we found the real problem:
mips64 has y2106 problem
the struct stat in asm/stat.h, the timestamp is unsigned int (uint32_t),
so in the SYS_stat, -1 is converted to 0xffffff.
Then in glibc wrapper of stat, 0xffffffff need to convert to int64_t,
then, it is converted to 2016.
So, current, for gzip, we can just ignore the test fails on mips64el.
To solve this problem: I guess that we can wrap `statx' instead of
`stat' in glibc.
Since the timestamp in bits/stat.h is 64bit, there will no ABI broken.
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YunQiang Su
