Re: scalapack tests missing on m68k

[Drew Parsons <dparsons@debian.org>]

On Tue, 2017-08-08 at 23:49 -0400, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On 08/08/2017 02:30 AM, Drew Parsons wrote:
> > scalapack 2.0.2 is in experimental.  It appears to build well
> > enough on
> > m68k [1], but something is going wrong with the test executables.
> > 
> > dh_auto_test isn't running any tests (the executables are in build-
> > openmpi/TESTING, and elsewhere in .../BLACS, .../PBLAS, build-
> > mpich).
> 
> I can run the testsuite manually if you like.

That would be handy, especially to know if the tests have in fact been
built.  The log doesn't show any complaints about the test executables,
but on the other hand the empty test results together with the
dh_install error suggests they're missing.


> 
> > dh_install reports: 
> >     Unsupported ioctl: cmd=0x40049409
> >     Unsupported ioctl: cmd=0x40049409
> >     Unsupported ioctl: cmd=0x40049409
> >     dh_install: Cannot find (any matches for) "build-
> > openmpi/BLACS/TESTING/x*" (tried in ., debian/tmp)
> >     dh_install: scalapack-mpi-test missing files: build-
> > openmpi/BLACS/TESTING/x*
> > 
> > Is an "Unsupported ioctl" message like this normal, when dh_install
> > has trouble finding files?
> 
> This is just coming from the fact that the builds are performed on
> QEMU. The messages aren't from dh_install but QEMU and can be
> ignored.
> 
> > What is m68k doing differently from the other arches?
> 
> We're not building on real hardware at the moment.

Ah, that explains the difference.

Thanks for your help,
Drew