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The s390x open source team at IBM confirms the latest versions of various software packages run well on #Linux on #IBMZ and #LinuxONE. In November 2023 validation was maintained for over 30 projects, including: #HAProxy #PostgreSQL & #Puppet

Full report: https://community.ibm.com/community/user/ibmz-and-linuxone/blogs/elizabeth-k-joseph1/2023/12/13/linuxone-open-source-report-november-2023 🐧


Linux on IBM Z and LinuxONE Open Source Software Report: November 2023

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in reply to Elizabeth K. Joseph

Federico Mena Quintero
Federico Mena Quintero
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I have a random question... do you know someone who would be (passionate enough about crossword puzzles) able to help debug an endianness problem in GNOME Crosswords?

(It's easy to test, the test suite triggers the bug on big-endian, I just haven't had the energy to actually figure it out.)

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Elizabeth K. Joseph
Elizabeth K. Joseph
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@federicomena IBM is a secret hive of crossword puzzle fans, so I should be able to find someone! Is there a public bug somewhere that has instructions for replicating the bug?
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Federico Mena Quintero
Federico Mena Quintero
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@blandford hey, thanks, this is very kind of you! The bug is https://gitlab.gnome.org/jrb/crosswords/-/issues/118, and it has some analysis of the failed test.

I'm happy to help someone get their build and test suite going. There are instructions at https://jrb.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/crosswords/devel-docs/build-and-run.html but we don't provide a container image for s390x. I can help someone figure it out from the .gitlab-ci.yml.


word-list-tests test failure on s390x (#118) · Issues · Jonathan Blandford / Crosswords · GitLab

This test fails on the s390x architecture (which is big endian, in case that matters):
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