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From: Alex Sassmannshausen <alex.sassmannshausen@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: 02/02: gnu: gsl: Update to 2.2.
Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2016 09:16:59 +0200
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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.
>>     
>>     * 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