test: skip some tests on big endian machines.

Dumpcap doesn't support fifos with streams created on a machine with
different endianess. Until dumpcap will support that, we need to skip
some tests so the whole test suite can pass.

Ping-Bug: 15754
Change-Id: Ia7fdf833715bf975fcee76968a7c1d75d084bd6f
Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/34173
Reviewed-by: Peter Wu <peter@lekensteyn.nl>
Reviewed-by: Dario Lombardo <lomato@gmail.com>

2 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/test/suite_capture.py b/test/suite_capture.py
index eb0448ec47..e94b3d754d 100644
--- a/test/suite_capture.py
+++ b/test/suite_capture.py
@@ -576,16 +576,24 @@ class case_dumpcap_ringbuffer(subprocesstest.SubprocessTestCase):
 class case_dumpcap_pcapng_sections(subprocesstest.SubprocessTestCase):
     def test_dumpcap_pcapng_single_in_single_out(self, check_dumpcap_pcapng_sections):
         '''Capture from a single pcapng source using Dumpcap and write a single file'''
+        if sys.byteorder == 'big':
+            fixtures.skip('this test is supported on little endian only')
         check_dumpcap_pcapng_sections(self)
 
     def test_dumpcap_pcapng_single_in_multi_out(self, check_dumpcap_pcapng_sections):
         '''Capture from a single pcapng source using Dumpcap and write two files'''
+        if sys.byteorder == 'big':
+            fixtures.skip('this test is supported on little endian only')
         check_dumpcap_pcapng_sections(self, multi_output=True)
 
     def test_dumpcap_pcapng_multi_in_single_out(self, check_dumpcap_pcapng_sections):
         '''Capture from two pcapng sources using Dumpcap and write a single file'''
+        if sys.byteorder == 'big':
+            fixtures.skip('this test is supported on little endian only')
         check_dumpcap_pcapng_sections(self, multi_input=True)
 
     def test_dumpcap_pcapng_multi_in_multi_out(self, check_dumpcap_pcapng_sections):
         '''Capture from two pcapng sources using Dumpcap and write two files'''
+        if sys.byteorder == 'big':
+            fixtures.skip('this test is supported on little endian only')
         check_dumpcap_pcapng_sections(self, multi_input=True, multi_output=True)
diff --git a/test/suite_dissection.py b/test/suite_dissection.py
index 772b40f5ca..eac8529d03 100644
--- a/test/suite_dissection.py
+++ b/test/suite_dissection.py
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ import os.path
 import subprocesstest
 import unittest
 import fixtures
+import sys
 
 @fixtures.mark_usefixtures('test_env')
 @fixtures.uses_fixtures
@@ -218,4 +219,6 @@ class case_decompress_smb2(subprocesstest.SubprocessTestCase):
         self.extract_compressed_payload(cmd_tshark, capture_file, 2)
 
     def test_smb311_read_lznt1(self, cmd_tshark, capture_file):
+        if sys.byteorder == 'big':
+            fixtures.skip('this test is supported on little endian only')
         self.extract_compressed_payload(cmd_tshark, capture_file, 3)