Not sure if this is WAF 2.0 related - it is not handling at least one "bi-endian" platform correctly now.

[Christopher O Cowan]

I'm still working on other WAF 2.0 problems that are preventing my waf
configure from completing now, so I don't have the c4che files.
Here are the snippets from the config.log, showing the problem:

(See attached file: pre-waf20-config.log)(See attached file:
endian-fail-config.log)



Alexander Bokovoy <ab at samba.org> wrote on 09/06/2018 12:54:03 AM:

> From: Alexander Bokovoy <ab at samba.org>
> To: Christopher O Cowan <Christopher.O.Cowan at ibm.com>
> Cc: samba tech <samba-technical at lists.samba.org>
> Date: 09/06/2018 12:54 AM
> Subject: Re: Not sure if this is WAF 2.0 related - it is not
> handling at least one "bi-endian" platform correctly now.
>
> On ke, 05 syys 2018, Christopher O Cowan via samba-technical wrote:
> >
> >
> > So, I noticed today that waf config was failing on AIX because it
started
> > passing both the HAVE_LITTLE_ENDIAN and HAVE_BIG_ENDIAN tests.    I
enjoyed
> > the error message "Failed endian determination.  The PDP-11 is back?",
> > BTW ;)
> >
> > The Power Architecture has always been bi-endian, but it seems that it
is
> > now passing the Little Endian check with WAF 2.0.
> > My understanding is that the newer ARM processors are also bi-endian.
> > Both platforms default to Big Endian, so I believe the wscript should
only
> > check if both variables are unset, on line 561
> Could you please share bin/config.log and bin/c4che/default_cache.py?
>
> --
> / Alexander Bokovoy
>
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