[clamav-users] Testing for Big Endian Architectures

Scott Kitterman debian at kitterman.com
Fri Jan 6 21:29:48 UTC 2023


On Thursday, January 5, 2023 8:51:27 AM EST Scott Kitterman via clamav-users 
wrote:
> We finally have Clamav 1.0.0 in Debian Unstable.
> 
> Unfortunately, unit tests fail on all big endian archs (shown in the PowerPC
> build log [1] - it's the same tests failing on all of them).  Does upstream
> testing include big endian?
> 
> Does anyone have suggestions on how to fix it?  I have access to hardware to
> test fixes if there are patches.
> 
> Scott K
> 
> [1]
> https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=clamav&arch=powerpc&ver=1.0.
> 0%2Bdfsg-4&stamp=1672878929&raw=0

My Debian collaborator Sebastian Siewior confirmed there are endianness issues 
in libclamav/pe.c.  We have a patch we're testing which we will submit 
upstream to fix this.

Scott K
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