GNU bug report logs - #9568
Bug#642291: FTBFS on powerpc: misc/seq-long-double test fails, should be skipped

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Michael Stone <mstone <at> debian.org>

Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 16:11:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 9573, 9576

Done: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #5 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Michael Stone <mstone <at> debian.org>
To: Michel Dänzer <daenzer <at> debian.org>,
	642291 <at> bugs.debian.org
Cc: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: Bug#642291: FTBFS on powerpc: misc/seq-long-double test fails,
	should be skipped
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 07:30:47 -0400

On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 10:18:47AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
>The test fails because it doesn't pass $CFLAGS to the compiler. The attached
>patch fixes this, so the test is skipped as expected.

The point wasn't to skip the test, it was to fix the bug. :-) 
Unfortunately, the CFLAGS change doesn't do that after all. If anything, 
it's worse:

./seq 9223372036854775807 9223372036854775808 | head
9223372036854775808
9223372036854775808
9223372036854775808
9223372036854775808
9223372036854775808
9223372036854775808
9223372036854775808
9223372036854775808
9223372036854775808
9223372036854775808

Before the CFLAGS change (add -mlong-double-64) it just did this:

./seq 9223372036854775807 9223372036854775808    
9223372036854775808

whereas with 8.5 it did this:

seq 9223372036854775807 9223372036854775808
9223372036854775807
9223372036854775808

(running on pescetti.d.o/powerpc)

Mike Stone
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