On Wed, 5 Aug 2020 21:21:02 -0700 Kevin Fenzi <kevin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 05, 2020 at 11:26:34PM -0400, Elliott Sales de Andrade wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Now that ppc64 is gone, s390x is the only big-endian architecture > > left. Bugs around endianness are not usually difficult to fix, _if_ I > > can debug it and see where exactly the problem is. However, this > > requires a tedious guess-a-patch, try a scratch build, check the > > result, rinse and repeat. > > > > Mock (with --forcearch) is completely useless for this. The programs > > just crash during the build in such a way that I can't even use > > `catchsegv`, and gdb is unusable in the container. And besides, the > > programs don't actually crash on real s390x anyway.. > > > > Just like we have test machines for other less used architectures [1], > > I am wondering if there is some way we can spin up a test machine for > > s390x? > > Sorry, not with the current setup. ;( > > I'll keep an eye out for any possiblity tho... I'd love to be able to > provide one. > > I think there may be a way to get access to a guest from ibm though. > (I'll let folks who know about that chime in here though) Kevin, shall I try to get a guest from Marist we could use as the stable test/devel machine? Like we do with the ppc64le machine from the OpenPOWER hub. Dan _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
