>>>> Can we disable the test suite for certain architectures?  Or would they
>>>> have to be disabled completely?
>>
>> Since it fails the same way on mips64el, I suggest this instead:
>>
>>    #:tests? (string=? (or (%current-system) (%current-target-system))
>>                           "x86_64-linux")
>
> Oops, we forgot to mention that there should be a comma before that
> first open paren, like this:
>
>     #:tests? ,(string=? (or (%current-system) (%current-target-system))
>                             "x86_64-linux")

Attached is a patch that disables the tests on all systems but
x86_64-linux.  I'm unsure about the indentation, though.  Should the
compared string really be aligned with the arguments of `(or' (as shown
above), or rather aligned with `(or', the argument to `(string=?' (as in
the attached patch)?

-- rekado