Re: Fwd: Bug#1111952: goffice: fails to build from source on ppc64
Hello Jeroen,
On Sun, 2025-08-24 at 16:44 +0700, Jeroen Diederen wrote:
> The source package goffice does not build from source on ppc64. To make
> it build I added ppc64 in debian/rules:
>
> ---
>
> override_dh_auto_test:
> ## https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=748504
> ifeq ($(DEB_BUILD_ARCH),$(filter $(DEB_BUILD_ARCH),powerpc ppc64el
> ppc64))
> @echo "======== will not abort on test(s) failure ========"
> -dh_auto_test
> else
> dh_auto_test
> endif
>
> ---
>
> The source is then built successfully on ppc64.
>
> The binary libgoffice-0.10-dev from this source is important for the
> build of gnumeric which couldn't be built on ppc64 for a very long time.
>
> Please fix.
Disabling the testsuite isn't really a fix, just a workaround which can cause
the package to cause crashes on the end user system. A proper fix would be
investigating and fixing why the testsuite is failing.
Adrian
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