[pkg-go] Bug#976907: golang-github-boltdb-bolt: FTBFS on ppc64el (arch:all-only src pkg): dh_auto_test: error: cd obj-powerpc64le-linux-gnu && go test -vet=off -v -p 160 -short github.com/boltdb/bolt github.com/boltdb/bolt/cmd/bolt returned exit code 1

[Andreas Henriksson]

Hello again,

On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 05:59:37PM +0100, Andreas Henriksson wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> 1 down, 1 to go.... info below.
> 
> On Wed, Dec 09, 2020 at 10:03:31AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> [...]
> > > === RUN   TestBucket_Stats
> > >     bucket_test.go:1172: unexpected BranchPageN: 0
> > > --- FAIL: TestBucket_Stats (6.41s)
[...]

Now also quickly looked into this one. It seems the test-suite
makes assumptions related to calculations that involve
os.Getpagesize() (which gives 4096 on amd64 and 65536 on ppc64el,
which is 16 times larger).
Changing the 500 number to 8000 (16 times larger) in
TestBucket_Stats(...) (in bucket_test.go:1143) gives the expected
BranchPageN == 1.... (however after that it then says 
"unexpected LeafPageN: 6" with this modification).

Anyway, this makes me loose interest in pursuing this further.
In my opinion it's pretty clear that these are test-suite only
issues and not issues in the actual product.

Unless someone else wants to pursue fixing up the test-suite for ppc64le
needs, my offer to "fix" this will be to simply disable it on !amd64
architectures (unless we agree on simply downgrading this issue to non-RC).

Regards,
Andreas Henriksson