[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#808769: ldb: FTBFS on s390x

[Mathieu Parent]

On Tue, 22 Dec 2015 17:39:05 +0100 Ivo De Decker <ivodd at debian.org> wrote:
> Package: ldb
> Version: 2:1.1.23-1
> Severity: serious
>
> Hi Jelmer,
>
> The ldb testsuite fails on s390x, causing the build to fail. Obviously, this
> also blocks the build of the latest version of samba (which build-depends on
> it).

It's also failing on ppc64 with the same error. Both s390x and ppc64
are Big-endian, but it builds on mips which is also big-endian, so
problem on 64bit big-endian?

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ERROR: test_set_component (__main__.DnTests)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "tests/python/api.py", line 661, in test_set_component
    dn.set_component(0, 'cn', 'bar')
TypeError: Failed to set component

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ERROR: test_set_component_bytes (__main__.DnTests)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "tests/python/api.py", line 672, in test_set_component_bytes
    dn.set_component(0, 'cn', b'bar')
TypeError: Failed to set component

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Ref:
https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=ldb&ver=2%3A1.1.24-1
https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=ldb&arch=ppc64&ver=2%3A1.1.24-1&stamp=1450397581
https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=ldb&arch=ppc64&ver=2%3A1.1.24-1&stamp=1450616129

Regards

Mathieu Parent