1.7.0 fails to build on mips64el (Support for compression 'none' not compiled into this binary)

[sebastic]

osmium-tools 1.7.0 failed to build on mips64el due to unittest failing:

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Parse OSM files
  OSM file with simple polygon
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/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/test/extract/test_unit.cpp:141
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/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/test/extract/test_unit.cpp:143: FAILED:
  REQUIRE( parser() == 0 )
due to unexpected exception with message:
  Support for compression 'none' not compiled into this binary

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Parse OSM files
  OSM file with two simple polygons
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/test/extract/test_unit.cpp:156
...............................................................................

/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/test/extract/test_unit.cpp:158: FAILED:
  REQUIRE( parser() == 0 )
due to unexpected exception with message:
  Support for compression 'none' not compiled into this binary

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Parse OSM files
  OSM file with multipolygon relation
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/test/extract/test_unit.cpp:174
...............................................................................

/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/test/extract/test_unit.cpp:176: FAILED:
  REQUIRE( parser() == 0 )
due to unexpected exception with message:
  Support for compression 'none' not compiled into this binary

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test cases:  16 |  15 passed | 1 failed
assertions: 159 | 156 passed | 3 failed

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[joto]

This is strange. I can't find any big changes in the code behind this and, even if there are, why this only happens on mips64el. To debug this, we would need to "git bisect" all changes and see whether this brings us closer to an answer. But I don't have access to a mips64el machine.

[sebastic]

bisecting this issue is too time consuming on the fairly slow mips64el porterbox.

I'll just ignore the test failures on this architecture.