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Re: 02/02: gnu: gsl: Update to 2.2.
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Efraim Flashner |
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Re: 02/02: gnu: gsl: Update to 2.2. |
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Fri, 02 Sep 2016 07:18:07 +0000 |
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That's what we found on irc also when we tried it
On September 2, 2016 10:16:59 AM GMT+03:00, Alex Sassmannshausen
<address@hidden> wrote:
>
>Mark H Weaver writes:
>
>> address@hidden (Efraim Flashner) writes:
>>
>>> efraim pushed a commit to branch master
>>> in repository guix.
>>>
>>> commit b16b16e6c2ba9780ebdf936c325e06ebcc0a950b
>>> Author: Efraim Flashner <address@hidden>
>>> Date: Tue Aug 30 00:33:17 2016 +0300
>>>
>>> gnu: gsl: Update to 2.2.
>>>
>>> * gnu/packages/maths.scm (gsl): Update to 2.2.
>>
>> FYI, I reverted this, because its test suite consistently fails on
>i686
>> with errors that appear to indicate a genuine problem. Gsl is an
>> important package that many other packages depend on, e.g. inkscape,
>> which is needed to convert our grub background, and therefore we have
>> been unable to build i686 systems since this update.
>
>Fwiw, GSL have released a new version 2.2.1, which aimed to revert
>changes to cholesky_decomp for backward compatibility (if I understand
>correctly). I tested the updated version locally on i686,
>unfortunately
>the problem for i686 persists.
>
>Alex
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