[vim/vim] Lots of testsuite failures on 32-bit big-endian targets starting with 9.1.2103 (Issue #19798)

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John Paul Adrian Glaubitz

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Mar 23, 2026, 3:42:02 AMMar 23
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Starting with vim version 9.1.2103, a lot of tests are failing on 32-bit big-endian targets such as PowerPC:

https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=vim&arch=powerpc&ver=2%3A9.1.2103-1&stamp=1769643507&raw=0

Version 9.1.1882 still passed all the tests on the same platform:

https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=vim&arch=powerpc&ver=2%3A9.1.1882-1&stamp=1761625596&raw=0

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Christian Brabandt

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Mar 23, 2026, 4:09:50 AMMar 23
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chrisbra left a comment (vim/vim#19798)

Well, 9.1.2103 simply changed how some newly opened buffers are closed. I don't think that this patch actually causes the failures. Can you bisect the offending patch?


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John Paul Adrian Glaubitz

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Mar 23, 2026, 4:13:52 AMMar 23
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OK, I will give the bisect a try.


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Christian Brabandt

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Apr 8, 2026, 3:15:19 AM (4 days ago) Apr 8
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chrisbra left a comment (vim/vim#19798)

Is this the same as https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1091729 ? In any case, I see @jamessan has successfully uploaded v9.2.0315 to sid, so I assume we can close this issue here.


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James McCoy

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Apr 8, 2026, 7:08:28 AM (4 days ago) Apr 8
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jamessan left a comment (vim/vim#19798)

No, that's a separate package that fails its tests with newer Vim versions. I think that's related to #16247, which I don't believe has been resolved. I had reverted 9.1.0949 for a while in Debian's package to avoid breaking YCM, but that recently started breaking Vim's test suite, so the latest upload stopped reverting the patch.

The issues @glaubitz are referring to are in Vim's own test suite. These are failing on Debian's unofficial ports, so they've been lower on my priority list to look into.

Looking at the full build log, I hadn't realized just how broad the test failures were.

Executed:  7691 Tests
 Skipped:   115 Tests
  FAILED:   878 Tests


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Christian Brabandt

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Apr 8, 2026, 7:49:44 AM (4 days ago) Apr 8
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chrisbra left a comment (vim/vim#19798)

Yeah, I was surprised by the amount of failing tests. That must be something fundamentally broken.


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John Paul Adrian Glaubitz

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Apr 10, 2026, 3:25:26 AM (2 days ago) Apr 10
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glaubitz left a comment (vim/vim#19798)

Yeah, I was surprised by the amount of failing tests. That must be something fundamentally broken.

Well, it worked with 9.1.1882, so I don't think it's fundamentally broken. I can verify whether that version still builds fine.

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Christian Brabandt

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Apr 10, 2026, 4:32:01 AM (2 days ago) Apr 10
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chrisbra left a comment (vim/vim#19798)

well 10% failing tests is worrying, especially since we do not see this here in our CI. So that's why it would be important to find which commit broke powerpc setup.


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Christian Brabandt

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Apr 11, 2026, 11:08:15 AM (14 hours ago) Apr 11
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Closed #19798 as completed via 8fd37e4.


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