On Thu, 2020-08-06 at 13:42 -0400, Robbie Harwood wrote: > 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. s390x isn't a primary arch. It's an alternative arch. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ 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
