Re: Checking build errors
Hi Lennart,
On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 09:24:15AM +0100, L.C. Karssen wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> Here's a follow up on what the debian-mentor list said:
> - Ask your sponsor to log in to the porterboxen, do a build and send you
> the results: https://db.debian.org/machines.cgi
> - Ask for a guest account on the porterboxen yourself:
> https://dsa.debian.org/doc/guest-account/
> - Use qemu to simulate the target arch
>
> Gert Wollny ran a build for me on a powerpc laptop and reminded me of
> the fact that endianness may be the problem, since some of the input
> files for the tests are binary.
> Later he even dug into the code to show that that indeed was the problem.
>
> So either upstream fixes the endian issue or I should mask the
> big-endian machines in the control file.
>
>
> Thanks to Paul Wise, Tobias Frost and Gert Wollny for their input and time!
Thanks to you and all people involved here. I guess upstream might be
quite interested in this research. If you contact them it might be
reasonable to keep this list in CC.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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