Elliott Sales de Andrade <quantum.analyst@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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? > > [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Machine_Resources_For_Package_Maintainers It's very strange to me that having test hardware available isn't a requirement for being a Primary architecture, or for that architecture being present in koji. IMO we should change that going forward. Thanks, --Robbie
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