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

I think the issue causing the test failure is likely to be related to the nonstandard long doubles used on powerpc processors.

See this MIPS report for a similar issue. Disabling long doubles on platforms with nonstandard implementations was suggested.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/goffice/-/issues/59

> On Aug 24, 2025, at 04:41, Jeroen Diederen <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 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
>