Re: Does bwa really need to be limited to amd64?

[Afif Elghraoui <afif@ghraoui.name>]

على الجمعـة  8 نيسـان 2016 ‫05:22، كتب Charles Plessy:
> BWA failed to build on i386 at version 0.7.5a-1 with the following error,
> despite the -D_NO_SSE2 option:
> 
>     /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.7/include/emmintrin.h:32:3: error: #error "SSE2 instruction set not enabled"
> 
> https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=bwa&arch=i386&ver=0.7.5a-1&stamp=1370353173
> 
> I expect that if you try to build it on i386, it will fail again.
> 
> In any case, for most bioinformatics software that is now developed on amd64, I
> would not trust output of the programs built successfully on other
> architectures unless there are good regression tests.
>

That's a good point. Thanks for clarifying the situation anyway.

> So I take the opportunity to say a big thank you to the people working on
> regression tests right now :)

Indeed.

regards
Afif

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