[Pkg-octave-devel] Upload of new version of octave to unstable?

[Sébastien Villemot]

On Tue, Sep 05, 2017 at 09:12:54AM -0700, Mike Miller wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 04, 2017 at 19:35:35 +0200, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
> > However last time I tried to build the package I got an "Illegal instruction"
> > fatal error in the testsuite (in libinterp/corefcn/graphics.cc-tst). I could
> > verify that it is related to the Qt5 move.
> 
> Was this using sbuild, pbuilder, or just a normal dpkg-buildpackage?
> 
> This sounds similar to what I originally reported about testing with Qt
> 5:
> 
> | I get a successful build running under sbuild, but I often get a SIGABRT
> | or SIGSEGV during the test stage when building in place outside of
> | sbuild.
> | 
> | After installing the debs from sbuild, I get the same SIGABRT sometimes
> | when running octave under xvfb-run manually. Or often a SIGSEGV when
> | running the tests in libinterp/corefcn/graphics.cc-tst under xvfb-run. I
> | don't see any of this with Octave 4.2.1-2 built with Qt 4.
> 
> I still don't know why I was able to build and run the test suite in
> sbuild, but it crashed when building in-place.

The problem is related to the use of xvfb. If I run the testsuite without it,
it works.

I am going to make an upload of octave very soon, incorporating the move to
Qt5.

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