... PASS: test-isnanl PASS: test-iswblank PASS: test-langinfo PASS: test-linkedhash_list PASS: test-locale PASS: test-localename [hang] https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//work/tasks/5063/16955063/build.log I tried two non-koji ppc64le machines and not reproduced. I'll have a look once more and I can possibly disable that test for ppc64le for now.
The test is (probably) 'test-lock'.
Turns out this is not ppc64le only: https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=16970779 Raised question on Gnulib's bug tracker: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2016-12/msg00113.html
There are two instances of 'test-lock' in gettext sources, one was already disabled (as I learned now) so I (temporarily) disabled also the other one. Let's keep this bug open until that get's sorted out.
This package has changed maintainer in Fedora. Reassigning to the new maintainer of this component.
If you really need to re-enable gnulib's test-lock, I would recommend to at least disable DO_TEST_RWLOCK because the unit test verifies code that is used by literally nothing and it tends to hang indefinitely on build hosts: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/coreutils/blob/6e05a629136449563ab68cdf32acb9d374f51c1f/f/coreutils-8.26-test-lock.patch
Patch was dropped downstream in f06c2682abc (2019).