Re: Bug#886133: ndpi: FTBFS on mips, s390x, powerpc, and ppc64: tests time out

On 2018-01-02 10:57, Aaron M. Ucko wrote:
> Source: ndpi
> Version: 2.2-1
> Severity: serious
> Tags: upstream
> Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the past)
> User: [email protected]
> Usertags: mips
> 
> Builds of ndpi for mips, s390x, and the non-release architectures
> powerpc and ppc64 all failed because running the test suite hit the
> autobuilders' inactivity timeouts.  These timeouts are generous enough
> (600 minutes on ppc64, 150 minutes on the other three architectures)
> that hitting them generally indicates that something managed to hang
> or spin indefinitely.  However, I see that the hppa build ran for a
> long time before terminating on its own (albeit with test suite
> errors), so you may simply need to add progress indicators for the
> sake of slow architectures.  (These are inactivity timeouts, so any
> output to stdout or stderr resets them.)

s390x and ppc64 are definitely not slow architectures. The common
between all these architectures is that there are big endian.