Re: 2.11.6 resume test fails on powerpc s390 and sparc

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2011-02-20 Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 02/20/2011 09:35 AM, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I have uploaded 2.11.6 to debian/experimental to get some test
> > builds. It did not go too bad, successful builds on amd64, armel,
> > i386, ia64 and kfreebsd-*, but the resume test failed on multiple
> > archs (powerpc s390 and sparc). The error is reproducible on e.g.
> > s390.

> I suppose it is an issue with big-endian systems only? Unfortunately
> I don't have access to any of them... If you or anyone else with access
> to such system, could locate the error using "git bisect", would be
> really helpful!

I started, but have given up for now since git is incompilable most of
the time. (Really, out of a dozen git bisects there are 10 unbuildable
checkouts.)

The bug is absent in the last 2.9. release
but present in 2.11.0.

I will revisit when I have hours to spare again.

cu andreas