Bug#840689: libterm-readline-gnu-perl: FTBFS on 64-bit big endian architectures

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Control: tags -1 + confirmed

Hi,

On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 11:03:15PM +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> Package: libterm-readline-gnu-perl
> Version: 1.34-1
> Severity: serious
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On a rebuild against libreadline7, your package failed to build on
> big-endian, 64-bit architectures:
> 
> # 2.4 History Variables
> ok 86 - history_inhibit_expansion_function
> ok 87
> ok 88
> ok
> Use of uninitialized value in string eq at t/readline.t line 119.
> Use of uninitialized value in string eq at t/readline.t line 119.
> 
> #   Failed test 'readline_state'
> #   at t/readline.t line 152.
> 
> Full logs at:
> 
> https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=libterm-readline-gnu-perl

Side-remark: It looks it only started failing on the last rebuild
round, up to 1.34-1+b1 all builds were fine.

Regards,
Salvatore