[GRASS-dev] compilation of grass on AIX 7.1

[Markus Metz]

On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 6:10 AM, Hamish <hamish_b at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Markus N wrote:
>
>> - diglib test updated in lib/vector/diglib/
>>     --> still failing there, we try to understand

That has been fixed in 56699, it was related to LFS.

>
> hmm, this is quite similar, I wonder if it is related:
>
>   "grass: FTBFS on ppc64 and s390x"
>   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=672719#17
>
>>> Errors in:
>>> /build/buildd-grass_6.4.1-2.1-s390x-GTALEw/grass-6.4.1/lib/vector/diglib
> ...
>>> cd OBJ.s390x-ibm-linux-gnu; \
>>> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=":/build/buildd-grass_6.4.1-2.1-s390x-GTALEw/grass-6.4.1/dist.s390x-ibm-linux-gnu/lib" ./test; diff ./test.tmp ../
>>> test.ok
>>> Killed
>>> make[6]: *** [OBJ.s390x-ibm-linux-gnu/test] Error 2

That seems to me a problem on big endian systems, not related to LFS,
fixed after 6.4.1. I would recommend to upgrade GRASS to either the
latest 6.4.3 snapshot or to 7.0.

Markus M