[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#915450: staden-io-lib FTBFS on big endian: test failures

[Adrian Bunk]

On Tue, Dec 04, 2018 at 06:12:26PM +0000, James Bonfield wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 04, 2018 at 07:53:35AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
>...
> I'm curious to know if you're getting the same issue on x86-64 and
> i386, but the more recent automakes sadly hide all test output if it
> works even with VERBOSE=1 on, grrr.
>...

This is fixable by going back to the serial test harness with
  AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([serial-tests])

> > >  ../progs/scramble  ./data/c1#bounds.sam test.out/c1#bounds.sam
> > >  ../progs/scramble  -r ./data/c1.fa ./data/c1#bounds.sam test.out/c1#bounds.full.cram
> > >  ../progs/scramble  ./data/c1#bounds.sam > test.out/tmp.sam
> > >  ../progs/scramble  test.out/c1#bounds.full.cram > test.out/c1#bounds.full.sam
> > >  ../progs/scramble  -O bam test.out/c1#bounds.full.cram > test.out/c1#bounds.full.bam
> > >  ../progs/scramble  test.out/c1#bounds.full.bam test.out/tmp.sam
> > > Invalid CRC in Deflate stream: 6614764d vs 00006614
> > > Failed to open file test.out/c1#bounds.full.bam
> > > FAIL scram.test (exit status: 1)
> 
> This however appears to be a genuine bug.  I'll try and reproduce it.
> 
> I'm guessing I'll need the exact OS rather than the RedHat based AWS
> image I launched last time to test non-intel platforms.
> Do you have AWS-ified Debian ARM images for people test launch tests
> against?

Note that this error is on big endian, not on ARM.

> James

cu
Adrian

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