Re: [Help-smalltalk] Trouble to build gnu-smalltlak-2.3.4 (test suite failed)

[Paolo Bonzini]

Jochen Schmitt wrote:
> ello,
>
> I have try to create a RPM package for gnu-smalltalk-2.3.4.
>
> Unfortunately two tests from the test suite are failed.
>
> I have uploaded the following files:
> http://www.herr-schmit.de/pub/gnu-smalltalk/testsuite.log
> http://www.herr-schmitt.de/pub/gnu-smalltalk/gnu-smalltalk.spec
> http://www.herr-schmitt.de/pub/gnu-smalltalk/gnu-smalltalk-2.3.4-1.fc8.src.rpm 
>
>
> The Build was done on the x86_64 system with Fedora Core 6 installed.
>
> It will be nice, if anyoune can help me.

For geometry.st, the problem is that sqrt is computed with a slightly 
different precision on x86_64, apparently.  I can fix it by using a 
Pythagorean triple (i.e. making sure the sqrt is integer).  It's not a 
big deal, I guess you can patch out the failing test (both the .st and 
.ok files); Thomas, you'll probably have the same problem on Debian.

For GDBM, I'll look at it later.

Paolo