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



Hi,

On 10/11/16 15:22, Norbert Preining wrote:
> 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.

I've managed to build texlive-bin on mips and mipsel after removing them
from BROKEN_ICU_ARCHS. I ran the xetex testcase in this bugreport on
both arches and it seems to work fine.

Why was it originaly added?

Thanks,
James

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