Big endian support
hdeller opened this issue · 6 comments
I'm aware, that slow5lib currently does not support big-endian machines.
Nevertheless, when compiling on a big-endian machine (specifically: Linux on HP-PARISC), I get this error:
: slow5_open_with::ERROR: Big endian machine detected. slow5lib only supports little endian at this time. Please open a github issue stating your machine spec https://github.com/hasindu2008/slow5lib/issues.
So, here is the bug report!
Full build log is here:
https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=libslow5lib&arch=hppa&ver=0.7.0%2Bdfsg-2.1&stamp=1713388301&raw=0
I'm happy to provide access to such a machine for you to test yourself! Just let me know!
Helge
Never thought one would ever come to this error haha.
I am quite pleasantly surprised.
I would be happy to do the development to support big-endian.
Would you happen to know of a system that I can get off the shelf for this dev?
Some online access to such a system is also adequate.
Oh wow i remember when we talked about this. And I was like, "nah, just chuck in a big warning. Anyone using a Big Endian is going to know what they are doing enough to come and talk to us about it"
I'm actually very positively impressed by your answer and your willingness to look into it :-) That's not the case for many other projects...
Can you please send me a private email to deller@gmx.de with your preferred linux login name and your public ssh key, then I can send you the ssh login information to such a machine.
In case you have a debian developer key, you could log in to any of the existing porter machines (e.g. fast s390x or ppc64 machines) -> https://db.debian.org/machines.cgi?sortby=purpose&sortorder=dsc
@hdeller are you packaging slow5lib for Debian, so are testing on all the Debian systems?
Bigendian support is now tested and available in the latest slow5lib release https://github.com/hasindu2008/slow5lib/releases/tag/v1.2.0