Bug#687074: unblock: rdkit/201203-3

[Michael Banck <mbanck@debian.org>]

Hi,

On Sun, Sep 09, 2012 at 03:42:52PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> On Sun, 2012-09-09 at 13:21 +0200, Michael Banck wrote:
> > Please unblock package rdkit, it fixes big-endian architectures and
> > re-enables the test suite. See e.g.
> > https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=rdkit&arch=mips&ver=201203-1&stamp=1337431768
> > vs.
> > https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=rdkit&arch=mips&ver=201203-3&stamp=1343568733
> > 
> > (201203-2 had the test suite disabled, so it built successfully on e.g.
> > mips).  
> 
> Presumably this means that the version of the package in testing is
> broken on several architectures, despite having built successfully?

Some parts of the functionality is broken on big endian architectures in
testing right now, yes.

> What's the effect on the package of disabling the functionality which
> the patch adds "if(RDK_BIG_ENDIAN)" guards around?

This is what Greg wrote me:

|I had to disable some of the "extra" functionality (clustering and one
|of the feature-selection algorithms, both of which are built on code
|that I didn't write and where it would take a while to diagnose the
|problems), but those don't impact the core cheminformatics aspects.

So this patch fixes the core, and disables some add-ons on big endian
architectures.


Cheers,

Michael