[csw-maintainers] libxml2 broken

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi John,

Am 06.06.2011 um 03:28 schrieb John Ellson:
> On 06/05/2011 08:55 PM, Maciej Bliziński wrote:
>> 2011/6/6 John Ellson <ellson at opencsw.org>:
>>> On 06/05/2011 08:36 PM, Maciej Bliziński wrote:
>>>> 2011/6/5 John Ellson <ellson at opencsw.org>:
>>>>> Trying to repackage libxml2 from trunk, with *no* changes, fails because
>>>>> of test failures during "make package"
> 
> The test failures are only from test/ebcdic_566012.xml.   If that test
> is removed, "make check" succeeds.
> 
> I suspect the problem is that CSWiconv doesn't have EBCDIC support:
> 
>    ellson at current9s:ellson> iconv -l | grep -i ebcdic
>    ellson at current9s:ellson>
> 
> We could fix CSWiconv or disable the test in CSWlibxml2

Always good to keep the eyes open. I just looked at the libiconv recipe and
"NOTES" from libiconv-1.13.1 says

  Q: Support EBCDIC ?
  A: No!

However, the packaged and released libxml2 2.7.8 does also not pass this test.

Ben: Do you want to report this upstream?


Best regards

  -- Dago