On Wed, 2012-08-08 at 17:19 +0200, Cédric Boutillier wrote: > Hi! > > ruby-gherkin does not build on the current architectures: armel, armhf, > powerpc, s390 and s390x. Since I do not have access to any of these > architectures, I was wondering if someone else had any clue about why > the compilation fails (the failing tests are the same on all these > architectures).
Without having looked at the code, this list of failing architectures makes me almost certain it is a problem of assuming the C type "char" is signed. The easy fix is to change the offending "char" declaration "signed char". Look at this table: http://wiki.debian.org/ArchitectureSpecificsMemo > > See > https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=ruby-gherkin > for details. > > This build failure is responsible for not having the new version of > ruby-gherkin in testing, which is in turn blocking cucumber... > > Thanks in advance for your insights. > > Cédric -- -Shawn Landden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1344449091.14502.65.camel@shawn-ssd

