[tlbuild] texlive build failures on Debian - upmendex

[Mojca Miklavec]

On 14 May 2016 at 13:14, Norbert Preining wrote:
>
> Mojca, you had something similar:
>
>> >> Making index file.Segmentation Fault - core dumped
>> >> FAIL tests/upmendex.test (exit status: 1)
>> >
>> > In the case of i386-freebsd, Karl found that the test for upmendex
>> > became OK by explicitly specifying -DU_IS_BIG_ENDIAN=0
>> > in both of CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS (for icu).
>>
>> Thank you very much for the hint. That solved the problem for me as well.

The same flag had to be used for x86_64-solaris. The weird thing is
that after using that flag all other binaries became slower (and all
binaries changed even though they were not supposed to; no other
library uses U_IS_BIG_ENDIAN).

Mojca