Merge pull request #2379 from ezeeyahoo/master

Adding changes to support PPC64LE

.travis.yml

@@ -16,14 +16,39 @@ jobs:
   - python: 3.9-dev
   - <<: *latest_py3
     env: TOXENV=docs
+  - arch: ppc64le
+    python: pypy3
+  - arch: ppc64le
+    python: 3.5
+  - &latest_py3_ppc
+    arch: ppc64le
+    python: 3.8
+  - <<: *latest_py3_ppc
+    env: LANG=C
+  - arch: ppc64le
+    python: 3.9-dev
   allow_failures:
   # suppress failures due to pypa/setuptools#2000
   - python: pypy3
+  - arch: ppc64le
+    python: pypy3
   - <<: *latest_py3
     env: TOXENV=docs
 
+
 cache: pip
 
+before_install:
+  - |
+    # Except on bionic, Travis Linux base image for PPC64LE
+    # platform lacks the proper
+    # permissions to the directory ~/.cache/pip/wheels that allow
+    # the user running travis build to install pip packages.
+    # TODO: is someone tracking this issue? Maybe just move to bionic?
+    if [[ "$TRAVIS_CPU_ARCH" == "ppc64le" ]]; then
+      sudo chown -Rfv $USER:$GROUP ~/.cache/pip/wheels
+    fi
+
 install:
 
 # ensure we have recent pip/setuptools/wheel

changelog.d/2379.misc.rst

+Travis CI test suite now tests against PPC64.