[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#890993: (Bug#890993) primer3 FTBFS on big endian: test failure

[Liubov Chuprikova]

Hi Andreas, Hi all,

I tried to figure out what exactly could cause the failure. The error
refers to the test files in the kmer_lists directory that are in binary
format. It seems they were generated on a little-endian architecture, that
is why the test fails on big-endian when it tries to verify the file by
comparing its first bytes with a given magic.

kmer_list/readme.txt says that the test files could be downloaded from
http://primer3.ut.ee/lists.htm, which says the files can also be created by
*glistmaker* from GenomeTester4 package.

So one solution could be to generate a set of similar test files for
big-endian architectures. For this, only genome sequences in Fasta format
would be necessary. But at this point, I get stuck as I have never faced a
need to emulate big-endian. Are there other ways to deal with that type of
problem?

With regards,
Liubov
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