Please help reproducing / fixing #751277 on architectures mips*, powerpc and s390x

2014-06-13 Thread Andreas Tille
tags 751277 help thanks I think to solve this the help of porters is needed since the build log does not say much. Otherwise the only reasonable thing to do from my side would be to exclude the package from the architectures in question since it seems to be possible that the package will not run

Re: Please help reproducing / fixing #751277 on architectures mips*, powerpc and s390x

2014-06-13 Thread Jakub Wilk
I posted gory technical details directly to the bug. This mail will be only about general porting advices: * Andreas Tille andr...@an3as.eu, 2014-06-13, 12:06: I think to solve this the help of porters is needed since the build log does not say much. I don't think many porters read

Re: Please help reproducing / fixing #751277 on architectures mips*, powerpc and s390x

2014-06-13 Thread Adam Borowski
On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 07:11:05PM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote: Don't be afraid! :-) Fixing most portability doesn't require deep knowledge about the architecture. It's often enough to be aware about the basic differences between them, like endianness, bitness, or whether unaligned access is

Re: Please help reproducing / fixing #751277 on architectures mips*, powerpc and s390x

2014-06-13 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Adam Borowski kilob...@angband.pl, 2014-06-13, 19:35: Don't be afraid! :-) Fixing most portability doesn't require deep knowledge about the architecture. It's often enough to be aware about the basic differences between them, like endianness, bitness, or whether unaligned access is