Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add dlib.

[Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 03:43:05PM +0100, Marius Bakke wrote:
> Shogun failed to build in this run. I don't have time to investigate
> further, so picking the OpenBLAS update is not very appealing.
> 
> Instead I opted to disable the test that fails with lapack (and without,
> on Hydra), since it's one specific openblas operation that is not unique
> to dlib. I think it's an acceptable tradeoff, to give users the full
> dlib functionality, and have the segfault "sort itself" when
> core-updates lands in master.

Okay, this sounds fine to me.

> Below is a patch which disables these tests (and the above segfault) for
> 19.1, rather than backporting the patches from dlib master branch.
> 
> One note about the patch: I could not figure out how to pass the list of
> tests as arguments to `substitute*`, so currently it calls `substitute*`
> for each of them. Any tips to prevent this?

Not from me — Calling all seasoned Schemers to thread :) If nobody
replies I will say this solution is fine.

Changing the subject, you could disable the tests per-architecture. Look
for uses of current-target-system and current-system for usage examples.
But this is not absolutely required, IMO.

> It also no longer builds the main application twice for tests.

Thank you :)