[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#725004: haskell-cryptocipher: FTBFS on mips, ppc, s390 and sparc (but was built there in the past)

[Niels Thykier]

On 2013-09-30 14:12, Niels Thykier wrote:
> Package: haskell-cryptocipher
> Version: 0.5.2-1
> Severity: serious
> 
> Hi,
> 
> The buildd logs all appear to have a log that looks something like:
> 
> """
> *** Failed! Falsifiable (after 1 test): 
> DESEDE2Message "~\134\162\184\232O\193\150n{#\180m\SYNi\240" "3;\157\243<Q\a\SYN\SOH6[\138D\129Og\134\143m\rWE8\188\157k7Y\171A\n\DC1" "j\248\217e\166O|c"
> (used seed 9713386)
>   DES-EDE2 (CTR): [OK, passed 100 tests]
>   DES-EDE2 (CFB): [OK, passed 100 tests]
>   DES-EDE2 (OFB): [OK, passed 100 tests]
> 
>          Properties   Total       
>  Passed  15           15          
>  Failed  8            8           
>  Total   23           23          
> Test suite test-cryptocipher: FAIL
> Test suite logged to: dist-ghc/test/cryptocipher-0.5.2-test-cryptocipher.log
> 0 of 1 test suites (0 of 1 test cases) passed.
> make: *** [check-ghc-stamp] Error 1
> """
> 
> These build failures are currently preventing haskell-cryptocipher
> from migrating to testing (and quite possibly blocking several other
> haskell packages as well).
> 
> ~Niels
> 

Hey,

On IRC, Joey Hess suspected this failure might be related to endianess
based on the failing architectures appearing to be big endian (and that
"cryptocipher certainly does some low-level bit-banging in C").

~Niels