Re: Bug#1093781: enchant-2: build tests fail on s390x

Simon McVittie <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.ports.s390
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Wed, 22 Jan 2025 at 13:03:13 -0500, Jeremy Bícha wrote:
> I recently fixed running enchant's build tests. Previously build test
> failures were ignored. Now it can be seen that the build tests are
> failing on s390x (and ppc64 and sparc64).

This smells like endianness: all of those architectures are 64-bit
big-endian, as opposed to powerpc (32-bit BE), amd64/arm64/etc.
(64-bit LE) and armel/i386/etc. (32-bit LE). Some endianness bugs only
manifest on a specific word size.

> They also fail on Ubuntu's
> ppc64el but I don't know what would be different about that
> architecture.

In the same way, or in a different way? ppc64el is *not* BE, so I would
be surprised if it suffers from endianness issues.

    smcv
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