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

It is the same fix as applied for many years in ppc64le. This is a 
release arch.
ttps://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=748504

John Paul Adrian Glaubitz schreef op 2025-08-24 17:47:
> 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