Bug#836454: texlive-binaries: xetex produces bad dvi at MIPS

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

Hi James,

> BROKEN_ICU_ARCHS := mips mipsel sparc64
> 
> [...]
> # building on mips/sparc etc is somehow broken, try fix from tlbuild
> # by setting U_IS_BIG_ENDIAN=0
> ifneq (,$(findstring $(DEB_HOST_ARCH), $(BROKEN_ICU_ARCHS)))
>   export CFLAGS += -DU_IS_BIG_ENDIAN=0
>   export CXXFLAGS += -DU_IS_BIG_ENDIAN=0
> else
> endif
> 
> But mips _is_ big endian so overriding U_IS_BIG_ENDIAN to 0 gives
> completely wrong results.

Umpf, ok, seems like an overlap in the problems occurring in ICU
and mips.

I would be *very* grateful if you could report about your
experiences with building with removing mips(el) from the
BROKEN_ICU_ARCHS and see if it works.

Thanks

Norbert

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