Bug#1054218: texlive-latex-base: pdflatex failures on big-endian architectures (s390x)
Hi,
I was told not to use that URL, so here is a new one https://freeshell.de/~hille42/debian_1054218/
Hilmar
29.10.2023 18:12:25 Hilmar Preuße <hille42@web.de>:
> On 10/19/23 14:20, Stuart Prescott wrote:
>
> Hi Stuart,
>
>> The unittests of the 'plastex' package run pdflatex to generate some
>> figures, and then extract the text from the figures to verify that
>> various implementation details of the package are working. These tests
>> pass on all release architectures except s390x. They also fail on ppc64.
>> The common feature of the failures is that the architecture is
>> big-endian.
>>
>
> I've got a patch from upstream, which /seems/ to solve the issue. Packages for PPC64 are here [1]. If you need packages for s390x, the debian.tar.xz and the dsc file are there too. Please be so kind to test on s390 too. Please be aware that simply copying the pdftex binary out of the package is not sufficient, the format file needs to re-generated too, better install the packages.
>
> Hilmar
>
> [1] https://www.beckmann.pro/~hille42/debian_1054218/
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