Re: pygame for ppc64 (rawhide)
On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 12:22 PM, Hans de Goede <hdegoede(a)redhat.com> wrote:
Hi all,
I'm getting a bunch of broken dependencies
mails every day due to a few games I maintain
depending on pygame (during runtime) and
that is not available on ppc64 / ppc64le.
A fix should be landing shortly.
Peter
> Checking pygame I noticed that Björn Esser
> has tried to build pygame for ppc but that
> failed to build.
>
> Björn, thank you for working on this.
>
> Looking at the build failure, it seems that
> there is may be an endian issue, which makes sense
> given that the build failure is on ppc64le:
>
> FAIL: make sure the color key is not changed when saving.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "test/image_test.py", line 284, in test_save_colorkey
> self.assertEqual(p1, s2.get_at((0,0)))
> AssertionError: (23, 23, 23, 255) != (23, 23, 255, 23)
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Although only the last 2 bytes of the 32 bit are swapped, which
> is weird. To make sure this really is an endian-ness issue
> I've also started a scratchbuild for just ppc64 and that
> did complete successfully.
>
> Looking at pygame itself, there seems to be no ppc specific
> code in there, all endian specific bits are done based on
> SDL_BYTEORDER which does get set correctly on ppc64le.
>
> Looking at SDL there also is not a whole lot of ppc specific
> code (I've grepped for both ppc and powerpc) and certainly
> nothing which would explain this.
>
> Any help with debugging this would be appreciated. In the mean
> time I've filed a bug for tracking this:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1392887
>
> I've also made the bug block the ppc tracker (1071880).
>
> And I'm going to kick of a build with the image test test-results
> ignored on ppc64le, to fix the broken deps issues.
>
> Regards,
>
> Hans
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