Re: Release 5.0 Next Tasks

[Mike Miller]

On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 11:25:58 -0500, John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 1/21/19 11:01 AM, Dmitri A. Sergatskov wrote:
> 
> > The eigs issue is due to veclib, works fine with openblas (see:
> > https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55534 ).
> > 
> > Logspace issue is due to bugs in clang/libc++, so perhaps the test should
> > be skipped on macos (like e.g. tests for mappers.cc-tst).
> 
> Couldn't we just give them bug numbers so they will show up as XFAIL instead
> of FAIL?

This is now reported as https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55538

> I do understand that the problem with XFAIL is that we don't seem to be very
> effective at actually fixing some of these long standing known bugs, but it
> seems better to me that we acknowledge rather than skip them.

Another problem is that a test may be tagged with one bug number that
was fixed, but then may fail on a particular system for a completely
different reason.

And yet another problem is that this bug may be closed as "won't fix" on
savannah because it's an LLVM bug. Someone may later tag it as <*55538>
because the bug report is closed, but the "*" is supposed to mark only
bugs that have been fixed.

-- 
mike

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