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Re: Checking build errors



Hi Andreas,

On 24-01-14 09:58, Andreas Tille wrote:
> 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.

I've already added a bug in upstream's bug tracker [1]. However, wearing
my upstream hat, I'm not sure if this is something we can/want to fix
any time soon. I don't think many people using ProbABEL work on
non-intel hardware.


Best,

Lennart.



[1]
https://r-forge.r-project.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=5299&group_id=505&atid=2058

> 
> Kind regards
> 
>       Andreas.
> 

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