[Pkg-octave-devel] octave-odepkg FTBFS on mips

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Rafael Laboissiere <rafael at laboissiere.net> [2014-09-17 14:01]:

> * Sébastien Villemot <sebastien at debian.org> [2014-09-17 07:51]:
>
>> However, on the longer term, something should be done in order to 
>> make that test faster (or at least make it display something like a 
>> progress counter, which should be enough to prevent the killing).
>
> I will see what is feasible to do in the context of the Debian package 
> and will eventually fill a bug report upstream on this issue.

I committed (f037e8e) a patch that changes the test block of 
src/odepkg_octsolver_rodas.cc in order to show progress meters for each 
of its 32 tests.  The excerpt of the build log is attached below.

The patch is not trivial and it may become a maintenance burden in the 
future.  For this reason, I committed the change in the branch 
show-test-progress of the Git repository.  This is just a "proof of 
concept" rather than something that we will necessarily be implemented in 
the package.

At any rate, please, tell me what you think.

Rafael

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PASSES 32 out of 32 tests