Bug#734215: sphinxbase: FTBFS on big endian architectures

[Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>]

Roland Stigge, le Sun 05 Jan 2014 01:42:38 +0100, a écrit :
> On 05/01/14 00:53, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Roland Stigge, le Sun 05 Jan 2014 00:25:53 +0100, a écrit :
> >> sphinxbase FTBFS on all big endian architectures:
> > 
> > Yes, this is known and reported upstream on 
> > 
> > http://sourceforge.net/p/cmusphinx/bugs/305/
> > 
> >> Looks like big endian is supported by sphinxbase,
> > 
> > What makes you think this?
> 
> Conditional compilation and runtime checks, depending on
> WORDS_BIGENDIAN. See "grep -r WORDS_BIGENDIAN".

So there is at least some support indeed.

> >> Ub*ntu's solution is to disable the testsuite on powerpc for this reason.
> > 
> > Well, I'd rather avoid uploading software that is known not to pass the
> > testsuite...
> 
> Therefore my reasoning: No problems reported in the other distribution
> since the package was built in Jul 2013.

But did anybody actually try it at all?

Samuel