Re: 02/02: gnu: gsl: Update to 2.2.

[Mark H Weaver]

address@hidden (Efraim Flashner) writes:

> efraim pushed a commit to branch master
> in repository guix.
>
> commit b16b16e6c2ba9780ebdf936c325e06ebcc0a950b
> Author: Efraim Flashner <address@hidden>
> Date:   Tue Aug 30 00:33:17 2016 +0300
>
>     gnu: gsl: Update to 2.2.
>     
>     * gnu/packages/maths.scm (gsl): Update to 2.2.

FYI, I reverted this, because its test suite consistently fails on i686
with errors that appear to indicate a genuine problem.  Gsl is an
important package that many other packages depend on, e.g. inkscape,
which is needed to convert our grub background, and therefore we have
been unable to build i686 systems since this update.

  https://hydra.gnu.org/build/1463044
  https://hydra.gnu.org/eval/109125#tabs-now-fail

See below for details from a failed build on my i686 machine.

      Mark


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   gsl 2.2: linalg/test-suite.log
====================================

# TOTAL: 1
# PASS:  0
# SKIP:  0
# XFAIL: 0
# FAIL:  1
# XPASS: 0
# ERROR: 0

.. contents:: :depth: 2

FAIL: test
==========

FAIL: cholesky_decomp unscaled hilbert rcond: (  7,  7): 
1.01502759606292202e-09   1.01502759382300005e-09
 (1.01502759606292202e-09 observed vs 1.01502759382300005e-09 expected) [272191]
FAIL: cholesky_decomp unscaled hilbert rcond: (  8,  8): 
2.95222203659770993e-11   2.95222163060200025e-11
 (2.95222203659770993e-11 observed vs 2.95222163060200025e-11 expected) [272433]
FAIL: pcholesky_decomp unscaled random: ( 44, 44)[16,37]: 
8.19982960820624455e-06   8.19982960820198059e-06
 (8.19982960820624455e-06 observed vs 8.19982960820198059e-06 expected) [486823]
FAIL: pcholesky_decomp unscaled random: ( 44, 44)[37,16]: 
8.19982960820624455e-06   8.19982960820198059e-06
 (8.19982960820624455e-06 observed vs 8.19982960820198059e-06 expected) [487726]