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. > -- *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* L.C. Karssen Utrecht The Netherlands lennart@karssen.org http://blog.karssen.org GPG key ID: A88F554A -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-
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