# Disables checking for endianness when targeting Emscripten because it causes configuration errors, and because we already know Emscripten targets are always little-endian.

--- a/cmake/SndFileChecks.cmake
+++ b/cmake/SndFileChecks.cmake
@@ -168,7 +168,10 @@ endif ()
 
 check_symbol_exists (S_IRGRP sys/stat.h HAVE_DECL_S_IRGRP)
 
-test_big_endian (WORDS_BIGENDIAN)
+string (TOLOWER ${CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME} SYSTEM_LOWER)
+if (NOT SYSTEM_LOWER STREQUAL "emscripten")
+	test_big_endian (WORDS_BIGENDIAN)
+endif ()
 if (WORDS_BIGENDIAN)
 	set (CPU_IS_BIG_ENDIAN 1)
 else ()