[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#780659: Bug#780659: insighttoolkit only built on amd64 and i386

[Paul Novotny]

On Tue, 2015-03-17 at 14:53 +0100, Matthias Klose wrote:
> Package: src:insighttoolkit4
> Version: 4.6.0-3
> 
> insighttoolkit is only built on amd64 and i386, while insighttoolkit3 worked on
> some more architectures.  any reason for not trying to build that?  Sure, it
> needs 50g - 100g disk for the build, a 500mb log file, and such.  given the
> alternative to remove binaries for other architectures before the next Ubuntu
> release, I gave it a try ...

I looked at this a while back. From what I could tell, some of the tests
were failing because GDCM was reading files incorrectly on big-endian
systems. The GDCM package is built with its tests off, so I think that
is how GDCM can be built for big endian architectures. Upstream GDCM
lists big endian support as a "major" missing feature, and unlikely to
work [1].

-Paul

[1] http://gdcm.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Missing