Re: diffutils FTBFS on ppc64el

2017-01-09 Thread Christoph Biedl
Santiago Vila wrote... > Are you sure we need a super-fast computer and not a super-slow one? There is no lack of super-slow computers so this would have been noticed earlier ... on the other hand, recent ppc64 boxes can be really, really fast. Where "fast" has many aspects, and there might be so

Re: diffutils FTBFS on ppc64el

2017-01-08 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sun, Jan 08, 2017 at 11:13:40PM +0100, Christoph Biedl wrote: > Aurelien Jarno wrote... > > > > FAIL: colors > > > > > > > > > diff: standard output: Broken pipe > > > FAIL colors (exit status: 1) > > This is the related code: > > | mkfifo fifo > | printf '%*s-a' 100 > a > |

Re: diffutils FTBFS on ppc64el

2017-01-08 Thread Christoph Biedl
Aurelien Jarno wrote... > > FAIL: colors > > > > > > diff: standard output: Broken pipe > > FAIL colors (exit status: 1) This is the related code: | mkfifo fifo | printf '%*s-a' 100 > a | printf '%*s-b' 100 > b | head -c 10 < fifo > /dev/null & + diff --color=always ---presu

Re: diffutils FTBFS on ppc64el

2017-01-08 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On 2017-01-08 19:56, Santiago Vila wrote: > Hi. > > diffutils FTBFS on ppc64l: > > FAIL: colors > > > diff: standard output: Broken pipe > FAIL colors (exit status: 1) > > > This already happened with previous version 3.5-1. > > Should I worry about it? I gave it back twice, and