On May 29, 2014 12:26:43 PM Gert Wollny wrote: > On Thu, 2014-05-29 at 10:48 +0100, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > > Yes, but wasn't the upload something like > > "do the test, but just print them and don't fail if tests fails?" > > No, never. The tests are there to make sure that the code is properly > compiled and linked, if the tests fail we have a problem that needs to > be resolved, otherwise the library may just not do what one expects it > to do, be it because the compiler created bad code, or because a version > of the used system libraries has a problem. I agree with that. > Since you use work on the new unstable Ubuntu version I would guess that > the problem is with the combinations of system libraries and the problem > may be resolved at one point, To be fair, I should note that we have very similar problems in Debian/sid. I find very often that the build (or tests) fail with the latest compilers and libraries. This particular upload took me three tries to build (with apt-get upgrade in between). I was quite shocked that it also built on the i386 autobuilder. Regards, -Steve
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