Adam D. Barratt wrote: >> I heard that some of the legacy tests are known to fail on non-x86 >> architectures; but I do not have a non-x86 system, so I could not verify >> this. > > That would be libbaz (which I keep confusing with foo++ and referring to > as libfoo) which is the only test case we have currently for > shlib-with-non-pic-code. Trying to build such an object on amd64 will > fail and subsequently make the test fail. There have been a number of > discussions regarding how to fix this over the past couple of years (at > least one involving beer) but we don't appear to have implemented a > solution as yet.
If it is ported to a new-style test, it can be skipped on non-i386 architectures by adding the Architecture: i386 field to the desc file (see t/tests/runtests-arch-i386.) However, since libbaz has other tests, it might be worth splitting the arch- dependent part from the rest. Cheers, -- Raphael Geissert - Debian Developer www.debian.org - get.debian.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-lint-maint-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/ietd5g$fa...@dough.gmane.org