the poly test case started to fail on big endians like ppc and s390 with gsl version 1.16 from build.log: ... Making check in poly make[1]: Entering directory `/builddir/build/BUILD/gsl-1.16/poly' make test make[2]: Entering directory `/builddir/build/BUILD/gsl-1.16/poly' gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I.. -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches -m64 -march=z9-109 -mtune=z10 -fgnu89-inline -c test.c /bin/sh ../libtool --tag=CC --mode=link gcc -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches -m64 -march=z9-109 -mtune=z10 -fgnu89-inline -Wl,-z,relro -o test test.o libgslpoly.la ../ieee-utils/libgslieeeutils.la ../err/libgslerr.la ../test/libgsltest.la ../sys/libgslsys.la ../utils/libutils.la ../sort/libgslsort.la -lm libtool: link: gcc -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches -m64 -march=z9-109 -mtune=z10 -fgnu89-inline -Wl,-z -Wl,relro -o test test.o ./.libs/libgslpoly.a -L/usr/lib64/atlas/ ../ieee-utils/.libs/libgslieeeutils.a ../err/.libs/libgslerr.a ../test/.libs/libgsltest.a ../sys/.libs/libgslsys.a ../utils/.libs/libutils.a ../sort/.libs/libgslsort.a -lm make[2]: Leaving directory `/builddir/build/BUILD/gsl-1.16/poly' make check-TESTS make[2]: Entering directory `/builddir/build/BUILD/gsl-1.16/poly' make[3]: Entering directory `/builddir/build/BUILD/gsl-1.16/poly' FAIL: test make[4]: Entering directory `/builddir/build/BUILD/gsl-1.16/poly' make[4]: Nothing to be done for `all'. make[4]: Leaving directory `/builddir/build/BUILD/gsl-1.16/poly' ============================================================================ Testsuite summary for gsl 1.16 ============================================================================ # TOTAL: 1 # PASS: 0 # SKIP: 0 # XFAIL: 0 # FAIL: 1 # XPASS: 0 # ERROR: 0 ============================================================================ See poly/test-suite.log ============================================================================ make[3]: Leaving directory `/builddir/build/BUILD/gsl-1.16/poly' make[3]: *** [test-suite.log] Error 1 make[2]: *** [check-TESTS] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/builddir/build/BUILD/gsl-1.16/poly' make[1]: *** [check-am] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/builddir/build/BUILD/gsl-1.16/poly' make: *** [check-recursive] Error 1 error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.ROnWFq (%check) for full logs please see http://ppc.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1690509 http://s390.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1359000 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gsl-1.16-11.fc21
should be fixed in gsl-1.16-13.fc21 - I'll close this bug after a successful build on s390, ppc looks fine.