Bug#827199: hfst: FTBFS: twolc test fails on big-endian systems

[Jonathan Wiltshire]

Hi,

On Sat, Oct 01, 2016 at 06:42:04PM +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Jun 2016 17:03:20 +0200 Tino Didriksen <tino at didriksen.cc> wrote:
> > On 13 June 2016 at 18:00, Aaron M. Ucko <amu at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> > 
> > > Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the
> > > past)
> > >
> > > Thanks for taking care of the twolc errors I reported in #826659.  The
> > > twolc test now succeeds on little-endian systems, and no longer hangs
> > > anywhere, but still fails on big-endian architectures (mips, powerpc,
> > > s390x, and several non-release architectures).  I don't have further
> > > details, but perhaps you can reproduce the problem on a porterbox.
> > > Could you please take a look?
> > 
> > 
> > Can reproduce. Looking into it upstream:
> > https://github.com/hfst/hfst/issues/328
> > 
> > While it did successfully build in the past, that was only because the test
> > suite was disabled until recently. The tests revealed the unsigned char
> > issue which was easy to fix, and now the endian issue which will not be as
> > easy.

Any news?

-- 
Jonathan Wiltshire                                      jmw at debian.org
Debian Developer                         http://people.debian.org/~jmw

4096R: 0xD3524C51 / 0A55 B7C5 1223 3942 86EC  74C3 5394 479D D352 4C51