[clapack] 01/03: Document skipped tests in README.source

[Andreas Tille]

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commit 5e0c2707c4caa951d5953360bfce9c3394926a6a
Author: Andreas Tille <tille at debian.org>
Date:   Fri May 27 17:32:09 2016 +0200

    Document skipped tests in README.source
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 debian/README.Source | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
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+The packaging is skipping some build time tests:
+
+ On 05/16/2016 01:50 PM, Danny Edel wrote:
+   after compiling, the test suite
+   crashed on the xeigtstz_* with Segmentation Fault errors.
+ .
+   I debugged this a little bit and the reason was these tests use a lot of
+   local (i.e. stack) variables -- so many in fact that they trigger a
+   stack overflow on entry.
+ .
+   Disabling stack size limit (mine was 8192 KB) with
+      ulimit -s unlimited
+   before calling dpkg-buildpackage fixed things for me.
+ .
+ Instead of fiddling around wuth ulimit these tests are disabled
+ for the moment
+
+(see https://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2016/05/msg00406.html)

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