On Thu, Sep 18, 2025 at 03:11:35PM +0530, tshah wrote: > The package fails to build on various architectures. See > https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=bootterm&suite=sid.
Thank you for your report. Confirmed, although to clarify, it's just ppc64el that's affected, and it's not a regression (it never worked). 32-bit powerpc is the only other Linux port that is affected, but it's an unofficial port, as are the Hurd ports. > Able to reproduce the issue while building the package on > pp64el and checked the build logs from pp64el > (https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=bootterm&arch=ppc64el&ver=0.5-1&stamp=1744757613&raw=0). > The error seems to be because of some library missiing. > Checking more on this. I had brought this up with upstream about a year ago. This is about non-standard custom baud rates and platform differences, on either the kernel side, glibc side, or both -- that part is unclear to me. In the time since, glibc 2.41 was released, which includes a news entry on <termios.h> gaining support for arbitrary baud rates, so perhaps the right cross-platform fix here is to change the code to rely on that, instead of using <termbits.h> directly. It needs a bit more research, and ideally to run this by upstream as well, as I don't have any way to test this particular functionality. Feel free to take this on, otherwise I may find some time in the next few months to look at it. Regards, Faidon
