Re: help needed with LibreOffice Java bridge on s390x/ppc64el

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>]

Hello!

On Mon, 2023-10-23 at 21:59 +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> since LibreOffice 7.6 (which added some more  tests which were manual 
> before to the automatic set) the testtools' bridge test fails:
> 
> https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=libreoffice&arch=ppc64el&ver=4%3A7.6.2-3&stamp=1697981409&raw=0
> 
> See the discussion upstream in
> https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2023-September/thread.html:
> "new bridgetest failures in 7.6 on ppc64le "
> 
> and continued in October
> 
> https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2023-October/thread.html
> 
> especially 
> https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2023-October/091058.html 
> and
> https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2023-October/091059.html
> 
> after which unfortunately noting important happened. (And I don't see a 
> patch either at Fedora git nor submitted upstream to fix this.)

These tests seem to be passing for 7.6.2 on openSUSE on ppc64el [1]. However, on openSUSE,
we're explicitly building with OpenJDK 8 while Debian builds with OpenJDK 17 [2] which might
explain the different test results.

Adrian

> [1] https://build.opensuse.org/package/live_build_log/openSUSE:Factory:PowerPC/libreoffice/standard/ppc64le
> [2] https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file/openSUSE:Factory/libreoffice/0001-Revert-java-9-changes.patch?expand=1

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