[Pkg-octave-devel] Packaging Octave 3.8

[Sébastien Villemot]

Le mardi 07 janvier 2014 à 09:31 -0500, Mike Miller a écrit :
> On Tue, 7 Jan 2014 09:06:29 +0100, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
> > On my side, I have fixed the FTBFS on s390x, which was due to some test
> > crashing. This would need more investigation, but in the meantime I have
> > just disabled that test.
> 
> I think there was an upstream bug report about the dblquad test failing
> at some point, may be related.
> 
> > The archs on which we should disable the JIT are therefore: armel,
> > armhf, mipsel, powerpc (for armhf I made a test on a porterbox, since
> > the buildds have not taken it yet).
> > 
> > There is also the case of mips where I can't understand the crash, I am
> > going to replicate it on a porterbox.
> 
> The mips build failure looks also related to JIT, doesn't it? Just not
> in the unit test as with the other ports:
> 
> | Operand is null
> |   %2 = call %octave_base_value* @octave_jit_binary_any_any(i32 0,
> %octave_base_value* %0, %octave_base_value* %1)
> | Operand is null
> |   ret %octave_base_value* %2
> | Broken module found, compilation aborted!
> | Stack dump:
> | 0.	Running pass 'Module Verifier' on function
> '@octave_jit_binary_any_any_0'
> | /bin/sh: line 1: 16228 Aborted                 ../../run-octave -f -q
> -H ./mk_doc_cache.m doc-cache ./macros.texi ../../scripts/DOCSTRINGS
> ../../libinterp/DOCSTRINGS
> | make[4]: *** [doc-cache] Error 1

I had not seen this error message in the build log (parallel builds make
build logs harder to read since several processes are entangled). Indeed
I agree with you that this must come from the JIT.

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