Bug#862090: mathicgb FTBFS on big endian architectures: test fails

[Radovan Birdic]

Package: mathicgb
Version: 1.0~git20170104-1
Severity: important
Tags: sid + patch
Justification: FTBFS
User: debian-mips at lists.debian.org
Usertags: mips-patch

Hello,

Package mathicgb_1.0~git20170104-1 FTBFS on mips and other big endian architectures with following error:

>...
> make  check-TESTS
> make[2]: Entering directory '/«PKGBUILDDIR»'
> make[3]: Entering directory '/«PKGBUILDDIR»'
> FAIL: unittest
> ====================================
>    mathicgb 1.0: ./test-suite.log
> ====================================
> 
> # TOTAL: 1
> # PASS:  0
> # SKIP:  0
> # XFAIL: 0
> # FAIL:  1
> # XPASS: 0
> # ERROR: 0
> 
> .. contents:: :depth: 2
> 
> FAIL: unittest
> ==============
> ...

Full build log:
https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=mathicgb&arch=mips&ver=1.0~git20170104-1&stamp=1486639289&raw=0

On upstream this issue is resolved with proposed commit:
https://github.com/Macaulay2/mathicgb/pull/9/commits/d8ae074c7f7655c3b85c2089cd7a05a98a70a46a

I have attached the patch.

With this patch package builds successfully on mips and mipsel.


Regards,
Radovan
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