Quoting "Peter Pentchev" <roam@ringlet.net>:
Hi, One of my packages, gforth, is having a weird FTBFS on hppa and a not-so-weird FTBFS on s390.
for hppa assistance you may want to get in touch with these people: http://lists.debian.org/debian-hppa/2009/09/msg00006.htmlgforth was mentioned at the tail of the message, but that failure looks very strange indeed.
for s390: you can fix the syntax fairly easy, but I would also suggest to discuss with upstream what exactly they meant to implement within #if and #else in engine/support.c:731. Some build log archaeology for previous versions on s390 reveals failures with undeclared vars at the same place which are later declared in subsequent versions, but then again that was not enough and never tested as well, hence there are good chances for possible muddle thinking at their part ;-)
A couple of weeks ago I asked here about help with a mips/mipsel problem, and two people kindly pointed out qemu as a way to (slowly, but still something) test things on different architectures. This, along with Aurelien Jarno's images at http://people.debian.org/~aurel32/qemu/ helped a lot with mips, mipsel, and armel. Is there anywhere I could find a ready-made qemu image of lenny, squeeze, or sid for either s390 or hppa? Installing it from scratch would be a bit more time-consuming than upgrading a ready-made image :( If not, could anyone suggest some other emulation environment that I could use for s390 or hppa? I came across a couple of mentions of Hercules, but they were all several years old. Any help would be appreciated.
Unfortunately, I don't have any bright idea for a better emulation environment.