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From: Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
Subject: Re: 02/02: gnu: gsl: Update to 2.2.
Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2016 07:18:07 +0000
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To: alex.sassmannshausen@gmail.com, Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
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That's what we found on irc also when we tried it

On September 2, 2016 10:16:59 AM GMT+03:00, Alex Sassmannshausen <alex.sa=
ssmannshausen@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>Mark H Weaver writes:
>
>> efraim@flashner.co.il (Efraim Flashner) writes:
>>
>>> efraim pushed a commit to branch master
>>> in repository guix.
>>>
>>> commit b16b16e6c2ba9780ebdf936c325e06ebcc0a950b
>>> Author: Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
>>> Date:   Tue Aug 30 00:33:17 2016 +0300
>>>
>>>     gnu: gsl: Update to 2.2.
>>>    =20
>>>     * gnu/packages/maths.scm (gsl): Update to 2.2.
>>
>> FYI, I reverted this, because its test suite consistently fails on
>i686
>> with errors that appear to indicate a genuine problem.  Gsl is an
>> important package that many other packages depend on, e.g. inkscape,
>> which is needed to convert our grub background, and therefore we have
>> been unable to build i686 systems since this update.
>
>Fwiw, GSL have released a new version 2.2.1, which aimed to revert
>changes to cholesky_decomp for backward compatibility (if I understand
>correctly).  I tested the updated version locally on i686,
>unfortunately
>the problem for i686 persists.
>
>Alex

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