On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 09:14:00PM -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > On 11 December 2005 at 19:02, Steve Langasek wrote: > | On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 07:49:55PM -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > | > | > On 11 December 2005 at 17:25, Blars Blarson wrote: > | > | Package: foreign > | > | Severity: serious > | > | Justification: fails to build from source > | > | > | foreign failed to build on a sparc buildd, duplicated on my sparc > pbuilder. > | > | (The number was 27374 rather than 27717 on my pbuilder.) > | > | > | make[2]: Entering directory > `/build/buildd/foreign-0.8.11/debian/foreign.Rcheck/tests' > | > | Running 'S3.R' > | > | Comparing 'S3.Rout' to 'S3.Rout.save' ... OK > | > | > Ok, I'll turn the regression test off as we did with a few other R > packages. > | > | And ship packages that generate bus errors?! > > Naaarrr, mate, don't panic. The R packages compare pre-generated output to > actual output, and tend to have the numerical precision too tight, in > particular for the foreign package that is focussed on importing data sets > for other statistical applications. > > I can detail this some more if you wish but rest assured that there are no > bus errors anywhere.
Yes, there are. That was the reason for the failure in the build log that was just cited to you. The package also fails to build on ia64 with the same bus error. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/
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