Re: Rebuild of libidn2 fails on RHEL/CentOS 4, 5 and 6 on PPC architecture

[Simon Josefsson]

Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> writes:

> Robert Scheck <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Hello Simon,
>>
>> I'm packaging libidn2 for Fedora and EPEL (which is an extra repository for
>> Enterprise Linux distributions like Red Hat Enterprise Linux or CentOS. But
>> unfortunately the rebuild on PPC architectures is failing all the time, due
>> to a failure in the tests (which I treat as an important thing).
>>
>> Attached the build logs from our build systems. Any idea what is broken or
>> what needs to be fixed? I assume this is something PPC specific, because it
>> works on Intel architecture 32 and 64 bit on the same distributions fine...
>>
>> May you help me here? Thank you very much.
>
> Hi Robert.  Thanks for your work!  I'm not aware of anyone testing it on
> PPC, so this is most likely a real bug -- libidn2 is mostly only tested
> on my own laptop.  I'll see if I can figure out what the problem is, or
> even try to reproduce the problem, I think I have access to some PPC
> systems.
>
> It looks indeed like a serious problem.  It is probably best to wait
> with the upload until it resolved.

Robert, I believe the problem is resolved with version 0.5.  Please test.

/Simon