Bug#1060735: glib2.0/experimental: FTBFS on s390x and other 64-bit BE: gdatetime test fails or crashes

[Simon McVittie]

On Sat, 13 Jan 2024 at 15:21:02 +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
> I recently uploaded a snapshot of GLib 2.79.x to experimental (in
> preparation for NEW processing) and it failed tests on s390x and on
> the 64-bit, big-endian ports ppc64 and sparc64. I suspect this means
> it's a general problem with 64-bit BE, rather than specifically s390x.

git bisect says commit df4aea76 "gdatetime: Add support for %E modifier
to g_date_time_format()" is the first bad commit, which would be consistent
with it being...

> instead
> of segfaulting, the test failed with an assertion error involving dates with
> a Japanese era marker:

... something to do with Japanese and Thai eras, and the %E modifier.

    smcv