HADOOP-10843. TestGridmixRecord unit tests failure on PowerPC (Jinghui Wang via Colin Patrick McCabe)

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/hadoop/common/trunk@1617860 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68

hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt

@@ -578,6 +578,9 @@ Release 2.6.0 - UNRELEASED
     HADOOP-10966. Hadoop Common native compilation broken in windows.
     (David Villegas via Arpit Agarwal)
 
+    HADOOP-10843. TestGridmixRecord unit tests failure on PowerPC (Jinghui Wang
+    via Colin Patrick McCabe)
+
 Release 2.5.0 - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES

hadoop-tools/hadoop-gridmix/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/gridmix/TestGridmixRecord.java

@@ -140,10 +140,10 @@ public class TestGridmixRecord {
       final int chk = WritableComparator.compareBytes(
           out1.getData(), 0, out1.getLength(),
           out2.getData(), 0, out2.getLength());
-      assertEquals(chk, x.compareTo(y));
-      assertEquals(chk, cmp.compare(
+      assertEquals(Integer.signum(chk), Integer.signum(x.compareTo(y)));
+      assertEquals(Integer.signum(chk), Integer.signum(cmp.compare(
             out1.getData(), 0, out1.getLength(),
-            out2.getData(), 0, out2.getLength()));
+            out2.getData(), 0, out2.getLength())));
       // write second copy, compare eq
       final int s1 = out1.getLength();
       x.write(out1);
@@ -153,8 +153,8 @@ public class TestGridmixRecord {
       y.write(out2);
       assertEquals(0, cmp.compare(out2.getData(), 0, s2,
             out2.getData(), s2, out2.getLength() - s2));
-      assertEquals(chk, cmp.compare(out1.getData(), 0, s1,
-            out2.getData(), s2, out2.getLength() - s2));
+      assertEquals(Integer.signum(chk), Integer.signum(cmp.compare(out1.getData(), 0, s1,
+            out2.getData(), s2, out2.getLength() - s2)));
     }
   }