Bug#836454: texlive-binaries: xetex produces bad dvi at MIPS

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

Hi James,

> I've managed to build texlive-bin on mips and mipsel after removing them
> from BROKEN_ICU_ARCHS. I ran the xetex testcase in this bugreport on
> both arches and it seems to work fine.
> 
> Why was it originaly added?

commit 346229ec86ccdd1ef8ce3ecf770072a4627a5528
Author: Norbert Preining <preining@debian.org>
Date:   Mon May 16 08:14:34 2016 +0900

    try fixing test errors on icu-related progs

With the respective changelog entry:
texlive-bin (2016.20160513.41080-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * uniform luajit options
  * try fixing test errors on icu-related progs
  * break context << 2016 due to luatex incompatibility (Closes: #824474)
  * syntax fix in rules
  * try to fix build/test errors on mips(el) and sparc (Closes: #824260)
    - make C(XX)FLAGS additive
    - remove mips(el) from luajit archs (debian/rules and /control)
    - disable upmendex on sparc/mips(el)

 -- Norbert Preining <preining@debian.org>  Wed, 18 May 2016 23:00:23 +0900

So please see bug #824260 where segfaults were reported for upmendex
and xetex.

Maybe recent ICU has fixed these issues?

I can upload a new package that reverts these changes, or prepare a new
package and we try to build it on mips/mipsel Debian builder machines.

Let me know what you think!

All the best

Norbert

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