Bug#764904: apophenia: FTBFS - test suite times out or has unexpected failures

2014-12-09 Thread Edmund Grimley Evans
The changes described above are now in the git repo: http://github.com/b-k/apophenia Do you want to add them as a patch to the Debian version? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#764904: apophenia: FTBFS - test suite times out or has unexpected failures

2014-11-11 Thread Edmund Grimley Evans
By the way, it might be a good idea to remove the /dev/null 21 from the command lines in case the compiler wants to warn you about this sort of thing. (I don't know whether GCC does in this particular case.) Please could you specify the place of this code. I was wrong. The /dev/null 21

Bug#764904: apophenia: FTBFS - test suite times out or has unexpected failures

2014-11-11 Thread Edmund Grimley Evans
There are also several places where the value returned from getopt is assigned to a variable of type char before being compared with -1. I would guess that the programs are going into an infinite loop while trying to parse their command-line arguments when char is unsigned. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Bug#764904: apophenia: FTBFS - test suite times out or has unexpected failures

2014-11-11 Thread Edmund Grimley Evans
Some good news: the code doesn't seem to need a lot of changes to make it work on arm64. I did this: * Changed the type of the local variables to which the value returned from fgetc, getopt or get_next is assigned from char to int. * Made get_next return int instead of char, and, to make it

Bug#764904: apophenia: FTBFS - test suite times out or has unexpected failures

2014-11-11 Thread Jerome BENOIT
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On 11/11/14 18:40, Edmund Grimley Evans wrote: Some good news: the code doesn't seem to need a lot of changes to make it work on arm64. I did this: * Changed the type of the local variables to which the value returned from fgetc, getopt or

Bug#764904: apophenia: FTBFS - test suite times out or has unexpected failures

2014-11-10 Thread Edmund Grimley Evans
From the buildd logs it appears that the tests are timing out. A quick look at apop_conversions.c suggests a plausible explanation. In that file there is code like this: char c = fgetc(infile); ... while(c!='\n' c !=EOF){ EOF is negative, and plain char is unsigned on ARM

Bug#764904: apophenia: FTBFS - test suite times out or has unexpected failures

2014-11-10 Thread Edmund Grimley Evans
By the way, it might be a good idea to remove the /dev/null 21 from the command lines in case the compiler wants to warn you about this sort of thing. (I don't know whether GCC does in this particular case.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Bug#764904: apophenia: FTBFS - test suite times out or has unexpected failures

2014-11-10 Thread Jerome BENOIT
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks Edmund for your comment: I will forward them to the upstream author. On 10/11/14 23:48, Edmund Grimley Evans wrote: By the way, it might be a good idea to remove the /dev/null 21 from the command lines in case the compiler wants to warn you

Bug#764904: apophenia: FTBFS - test suite times out or has unexpected failures

2014-11-10 Thread Jerome BENOIT
On 10/11/14 23:48, Edmund Grimley Evans wrote: By the way, it might be a good idea to remove the /dev/null 21 from the command lines in case the compiler wants to warn you about this sort of thing. (I don't know whether GCC does in this particular case.) Please could you specify the place

Bug#764904: apophenia: FTBFS - test suite times out or has unexpected failures

2014-10-12 Thread Jerome BENOIT
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Unfortunately I am blind here: 1] I have no access to the tests/test-suite.log ; 2] I cannot reproduce the issue on a virtual i386 box on my amd64 computer (via pbuild); 3] I have not access to those architectures. I have contacted the upstream

Bug#764904: apophenia: FTBFS - test suite times out or has unexpected failures

2014-10-11 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Source: apophenia Version: 0.999b+ds3-1 Severity: important Builds of apophenia on most architectures failed because the test suite either tripped sbuild's inactivity timeout or encountered unexpected failures, most commonly of distribution_tests. Could you please take a look? You can find the