Bug#840817: mpi4py FTBFS on alpha: libm.so.6 does not exist on Alpha (but libm.so.6.1 does)
Source: mpi4py Followup-For: Bug #840817 As you saw, this comes from debian/patches/up_libm, in attempting to deal with Bug#817884. New version 3.0.2 handles libm.so a little differently. Let's keep the patch applied in the first instance to confirm that alpha is still affected. After that we can try removing the patch. The new upstream version should make the patch redundant (though perhaps the problem the patch was intended to fix will then affect only alpha). Drew -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Bug#840817: mpi4py FTBFS on alpha: libm.so.6 does not exist on Alpha (but libm.so.6.1 does)
Source: mpi4py Version: 2.0.0-2 Severity: important Justification: fails to build from source (but built in the past) User: debian-al...@lists.debian.org Usertags: ftbfs mpi4py FTBFS on Alpha with the following failure in the test suite [1]: FAIL: testDL1 (test_dl.TestDL) -- Traceback (most recent call last): File "/<>/test/test_dl.py", line 18, in testDL1 self.assertTrue(handle != 0) AssertionError: False is not true In tests/test_dl.py is: def testDL1(self): if sys.platform == 'darwin': libm = 'libm.dylib' else: libm = 'libm.so.6' And it proceeds to try to open libm which on Alpha fails because the C library version is 6.1, not 6. The code should really be detecting the CPU and if it is Alpha should use 'libm.so.6.1' as the math library. (I presume it should also be checking for the hurd and kfreebsd as they also have different C library versions, but those builds don't get far enough to see this problem.) Cheers Michael. [1] https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=mpi4py&arch=alpha&ver=2.0.0-2&stamp=1473761717
