Dear ppcspe porters, As dietlibc has now been finally built for powerpcspe, I noticed from the build log [1] that DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck is set. I have taken great care to make sure a set of tests that covers many things is run when the package is built, to weed out architecture-specific problems. And while the tests do appear to work in qemu-user chroots for powerpcspe, and at least the very basic functionality appears to work on the buildds (otherwise the package itself would fail to build), I believe that it is essential for dietlibc that the tests are run on real hardware, to ensure that nothing is broken. (Also, they are much quicker to run than the package build takes anyway, and they require less memory than the compiler.) This will likely also apply to other packages.
Hence my question: is there a reason why this setting is present on powerpcspe (or was at least at that specific time)? Thanks, Christian [1] https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=dietlibc&arch=powerpcspe&ver=0.34~cvs20160606-1&stamp=1466205814
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