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[PATCH 0/1] gnu: Add gromacs.

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From: Vincent Legoll <vincent.legoll <at> gmail.com>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 40691 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug#40691] [PATCH v3 1/1] gnu: Add gromacs.
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 15:07:42 +0200

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On 22/04/2020 17:38, Ludovic Courtès wrote:

> This v2 looks alright to me, but I got this test failure on x86_64:
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>        Start 13: HardwareUnitTests
> 13/52 Test #13: HardwareUnitTests ...................***Failed    0.04 sec
> [==========] Running 5 tests from 2 test cases.
> [----------] Global test environment set-up.
> [----------] 1 test from CpuInfoTest
> [ RUN      ] CpuInfoTest.SupportLevel
> [       OK ] CpuInfoTest.SupportLevel (0 ms)
> [----------] 1 test from CpuInfoTest (0 ms total)
> 
> [----------] 4 tests from HardwareTopologyTest
> [ RUN      ] HardwareTopologyTest.Execute
> [       OK ] HardwareTopologyTest.Execute (6 ms)
> [ RUN      ] HardwareTopologyTest.HwlocExecute
> /tmp/guix-build-gromacs-2020.1.drv-0/gromacs-2020.1/src/gromacs/hardware/tests/hardwaretopology.cpp:88: Failure
> Expected: (hwTop.supportLevel()) >= (gmx::HardwareTopology::SupportLevel::Basic), actual: 4-byte object <01-00 00-00> vs 4-byte object <02-00 00-00>
> Cannot determine basic hardware topology from hwloc. GROMACS will still
> 
> work, but it might affect your performance for large nodes.
> Please mail gmx-developers <at> gromacs.org so we can try to fix it.
> [  FAILED  ] HardwareTopologyTest.HwlocExecute (5 ms)
> [ RUN      ] HardwareTopologyTest.ProcessorSelfconsistency
> [       OK ] HardwareTopologyTest.ProcessorSelfconsistency (6 ms)
> [ RUN      ] HardwareTopologyTest.NumaCacheSelfconsistency
> [       OK ] HardwareTopologyTest.NumaCacheSelfconsistency (5 ms)
> [----------] 4 tests from HardwareTopologyTest (22 ms total)
> 
> [----------] Global test environment tear-down
> [==========] 5 tests from 2 test cases ran. (22 ms total)
> [  PASSED  ] 4 tests.
> [  FAILED  ] 1 test, listed below:
> [  FAILED  ] HardwareTopologyTest.HwlocExecute
> 
>   1 FAILED TEST
> 
> […]
> 
> The following tests FAILED:
>           13 - HardwareUnitTests (Failed)
> Errors while running CTest
> make: *** [Makefile:99: test] Error 8
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
> Could you check what the test is doing?

I think it tries to get CPU topology from the linux kernel,
which is not particularly useful to test on a build server,
the package may run on completely different hardware.

> It may be reasonable to just skip it.

Hope you don't mind trading a test suite failure for a (harmless)
test suite build warning...

How's the crude disabling in the attached patch v3 look to you ?

And does it fix the failure ?
This test is not failing here (kvm on ryzen).

-- 
Vincent Legoll

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