Debian Bug report logs - #668864
bitcoind: Doesn't support big-endian systems

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Dwayne C. Litzenberger" <dlitz@dlitz.net>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: bitcoind: Doesn't support big-endian systems

Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2012 01:55:50 -0400

Package: bitcoind
Version: 0.3.24~dfsg-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: upstream

In Bug#665922, luke-jr (the upstream maintainer of bitcoin-stable) wrote:

    bitcoind has never been supported on big-endian architectures, even in 
    0.3.x, and even if it used to build, there's almost no chance it works 
    at all.

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=665922

It would be nice if it *did* work on big-endian architectures.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
   APT prefers testing
   APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: mips

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-4kc-malta
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages bitcoind depends on:
ii  libboost-filesystem1.46.1       1.46.1-8
ii  libboost-program-options1.46.1  1.46.1-8
ii  libboost-system1.46.1           1.46.1-8
ii  libboost-thread1.46.1           1.46.1-8
ii  libc6                           2.13-27
ii  libcrypto++9                    5.6.1-5
ii  libdb5.1++                      5.1.29-1
ii  libgcc1                         1:4.7.0-1
ii  libglib2.0-0                    2.30.2-6
ii  libminiupnpc5                   1.5-2
ii  libssl1.0.0                     1.0.1-4
ii  libstdc++6                      4.7.0-1
ii  zlib1g                          1:1.2.6.dfsg-2

bitcoind recommends no packages.

Versions of packages bitcoind suggests:
pn  db-util     <none>
pn  db4.7-util  <none>
pn  db4.8-util  <none>

-- no debconf information

Message #10 received at 668864-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>

To: 668864-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#668864: fixed in bitcoin 0.6.2.1-1

Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 13:17:13 +0000

Source: bitcoin
Source-Version: 0.6.2.1-1

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
bitcoin, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

bitcoin_0.6.2.1-1.debian.tar.gz
  to main/b/bitcoin/bitcoin_0.6.2.1-1.debian.tar.gz
bitcoin_0.6.2.1-1.dsc
  to main/b/bitcoin/bitcoin_0.6.2.1-1.dsc
bitcoin_0.6.2.1.orig.tar.gz
  to main/b/bitcoin/bitcoin_0.6.2.1.orig.tar.gz
bitcoind_0.6.2.1-1_amd64.deb
  to main/b/bitcoin/bitcoind_0.6.2.1-1_amd64.deb



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 668864@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk> (supplier of updated bitcoin package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@debian.org)


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Format: 1.8
Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 14:09:46 +0200
Source: bitcoin
Binary: bitcoind
Architecture: source amd64
Version: 0.6.2.1-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
Changed-By: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
Description: 
 bitcoind   - peer-to-peer network based digital currency - daemon
Closes: 667114 668864 668868
Changes: 
 bitcoin (0.6.2.1-1) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * New upstream release.
 .
   * Add -fpermissive to CXXFLAGS to work around build failure with gcc
     4.7.
     Closes: bug#667114. Thanks to Matthias Klose.
   * Only build on little-endian architectures: Upstream code does not
     support big-endian.
     Closes: bug#668868, #668864. Thanks to Dwayne C. Litzenberger.
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