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05-07-2008, 07:30 AM
"Thibault North"
Removing hdf5 from ppc64
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 10:17 PM, Orion Poplawski <orion@cora.nwra.com> wrote:
> The hdf5 1.8.0 does not build on ppc64 (or it builds, but it fails its
> tests). I've put in an ExcludeArch: ppc64 for now and filed a bug:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445423
>
> I really don't have any more time to work on this at the moment. If you do
> and you care about this, all help is appreciated.
>
> Packages (directly) affected:
>
> gdal
> LabPlot
> octave
> paraview
> R-hdf5
>
> Downstream:
>
> gdal -> grass, mapserver, qgis
> octave -> octave-forge, plplot
> plplot -> gdl, perl-PDL
>
LabPlot already excludes ppc64, so there is no regression for it after
hdf5 1.8.0.
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05-07-2008, 09:07 AM
David Woodhouse
Removing hdf5 from ppc64
On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 09:30 +0200, Thibault North wrote:
> LabPlot already excludes ppc64, so there is no regression for it after
> hdf5 1.8.0.
What's the bug number? I don't see it on the FE-ExcludeArch-ppc64
tracker.
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05-07-2008, 10:08 AM
David Woodhouse
Removing hdf5 from ppc64
On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 14:17 -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> The hdf5 1.8.0 does not build on ppc64 (or it builds, but it fails its
> tests). I've put in an ExcludeArch: ppc64 for now and filed a bug:
All the test failures are precision/rounding errors with 'long double'.
My first guess would be that it's assuming that 'long double' is 64-bit.
That's not a valid assumption, in the general case.
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05-07-2008, 10:51 AM
David Woodhouse
Removing hdf5 from ppc64
On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 11:08 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 14:17 -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> > The hdf5 1.8.0 does not build on ppc64 (or it builds, but it fails its
> > tests). I've put in an ExcludeArch: ppc64 for now and filed a bug:
>
> All the test failures are precision/rounding errors with 'long double'.
> My first guess would be that it's assuming that 'long double' is 64-bit.
> That's not a valid assumption, in the general case.
Hm, seems like it's _expecting_ rounding errors. But only handles them
by ignoring the last few bytes of the mantissa. But in these cases, the
mantissa and the exponent are both quite different, although the total
error is small:
Here, I think that 'dst' is the result of the routine under test, while
'ans' is the result of letting the hardware/compiler do the conversion
with a simple cast.
I'm not sure if this is a real error which it intended to catch, or
whether it's considered acceptable lack of precision.
As ever, I can give accounts on suitable machines to more knowledgeable
people who want to investigate further. Just let me have a SSH public
key.
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