Bug#742409: [Sereal] 2.06 fails to build on some architectures: (#47)

[demerphq]

On 17 September 2014 07:52, Niko Tyni <ntyni at debian.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 10:24:35PM +0200, demerphq wrote:
>
> > Well I am wondering if you can look the patch I referenced above and see
> if
> > you can work out what you need to do to get s390x to do the right thing?
> As
> > you have identified yourself this is clearly a problem with the snappy
> > support. But we pass test on other big-endian 64 bit platform as far as I
> > understand (although I might be wrong).
>
> 64-bit big endian is pretty rare I think, and none of such Debian ports
> (s390x, powerpc64, sparc64) show successful tests. I think the sparc64
> port is pretty much dead though and we don't have test results for
> 3.002 on that.
>
> Also, ppc64el (little-endian version of powerpc64), works fine.
>
> So I suspect it's a general 64-bit big-endian problem.
>
> But sure, I'll see what I can do.
>

I was under the impression that Jarkko got Sereal to work on big-endian 64
bit HPUX. But maybe I am wrong. Jarkko can you speak to that?

Yves

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