Re: lintian test suite
Adam D. Barratt wrote:
>> I heard that some of the legacy tests are known to fail on non-x86
>> architectures; but I do not have a non-x86 system, so I could not verify
>> this.
>
> That would be libbaz (which I keep confusing with foo++ and referring to
> as libfoo) which is the only test case we have currently for
> shlib-with-non-pic-code. Trying to build such an object on amd64 will
> fail and subsequently make the test fail. There have been a number of
> discussions regarding how to fix this over the past couple of years (at
> least one involving beer) but we don't appear to have implemented a
> solution as yet.
If it is ported to a new-style test, it can be skipped on non-i386
architectures by adding the Architecture: i386 field to the desc file (see
t/tests/runtests-arch-i386.)
However, since libbaz has other tests, it might be worth splitting the arch-
dependent part from the rest.
Cheers,
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Raphael Geissert - Debian Developer
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