I compiled the package from source in the mentioned QEMU-emulated big-endian MIPS machine, so I could debug it properly. This way I found the culprit for this specific error. However, only very little of the other file reading code seems to be ready for a big-endian environment. There seems to be a whole lot of refactoring necessary to make the package endianness independent. If at all, this has to be done by upstream.

I think for the moment we should just stop building the package for big-endian architectures. What do you think?

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