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

[Sébastien Villemot]

Le vendredi 19 septembre 2014 à 13:07 +0200, Rafael Laboissiere a
écrit :
> * 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.

I think this is good. Maybe we could explore whether upstream would
accept to incorporate this patch (or an equivalent one). After all,
users running the tests may want to see some progress bar too.

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