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Re: Gmp 6.1 in core-updates
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: Gmp 6.1 in core-updates |
Date: |
Sat, 12 Dec 2015 18:58:44 +0100 |
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Andreas Enge <address@hidden> skribis:
> I just had a quick look at gmp-6.1.0, to which I updated in core-updates,
> and which causes failures on arm.
>
> When trying to build from hand with "make check -j 4", I got the following:
> make[4]: *** No rule to make target '../libgmp.la', needed by 't-bswap'.
> Stop.
> make[4]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> Apparently, the checks were started before the library was compiled.
>
> Well, that is not what we do. But it raises suspicions whether a parallel
> build works.
This is weird, but indeed, not what gnu-build-system does.
> Then I tried "make -j 4", which completed, followed by "make -j 4 check".
> One of the tests fails:
> FAIL: reuse
> See tests/mpz/test-suite.log
Isn’t it again an instance of presumed overheating, as discussed in
<http://bugs.gnu.org/21620>?
These tests are purely computational AFAIK, so I don’t see how running
tests in parallel could possibly lead to failures.
WDYT?
Thanks,
Ludo’.
PS: Forget my other message on this subject, which I sent before reading
yours.