[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#857899: Bug#857899: octave-sparsersb FTBFS on i386: error: testscal: EIG: matrix contains Inf or NaN values

[Rafael Laboissière]

* Michele Martone <michelemartone at users.sourceforge.net> [2017-03-20 18:32]:

> Second, I looked at the line failing:
>
> 334 OM=OM^(1/2); XM=XM^(1/2); 
> 335 match&=isequal(find(OM),find(XM));
>
> Then I checked in sparsersb.cc: ^ is not implemented. 
> Reason it's working on the Octave instances above is 
> because a conversion occurs. 
> So ^ is not officially supported by that version sparsersb 
> (.^ is).
>
> I suggest to patch commenting lines 334 and 335 (no need 
> to test a non-existing feature) and re-package 
> octave-sparsersb and check again on that Octave instance. 
> I'll check whether ^ can be implemented for the next revision.

This change fixed the build problem on i386: 
https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=octave-sparsersb&arch=i386&ver=1.0.2-3&stamp=1490044966&raw=0

Thanks,

Rafael