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

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Sébastien Villemot <sebastien at debian.org> [2014-09-24 15:58]:

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

Ok, I will eventually file a bug report upstream on this issue.

Rafael