Re: Fwd: Bug#1111952: goffice: fails to build from source on ppc64

Hello Jeroen,

On Sun, 2025-08-24 at 16:44 +0700, Jeroen Diederen wrote:
> The source package goffice does not build from source on ppc64. To make 
> it build I added ppc64 in debian/rules:
> 
> ---
> 
> override_dh_auto_test:
> 	## https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=748504
> ifeq ($(DEB_BUILD_ARCH),$(filter $(DEB_BUILD_ARCH),powerpc ppc64el 
> ppc64))
> 	@echo "======== will not abort on test(s) failure ========"
> 	-dh_auto_test
> else
> 	dh_auto_test
> endif
> 
> ---
> 
> The source is then built successfully on ppc64.
> 
> The binary libgoffice-0.10-dev from this source is important for the 
> build of gnumeric which couldn't be built on ppc64 for a very long time.
> 
> Please fix.

Disabling the testsuite isn't really a fix, just a workaround which can cause
the package to cause crashes on the end user system. A proper fix would be
investigating and fixing why the testsuite is failing.

Adrian

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