Re: headache on build repeatibility: octave vs BLODA ?

[Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca>]

On 2020-01-25 09:55, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> Hi All,
> I have recently released Octave 5.1.0
> 
> https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2020-01/msg00010.html
> https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2020-01/msg00011.html
> 
> that I built and packaged around 28 of December without
> any compilation and test issue.
> 
> Than I passed to build the next version and started to see
> unexpected segfault during the package test.
> Trying to investigate I rebuilt the 5.1.0 and now I see also
> there the same thing:
> 
>   libinterp/corefcn/file-io.cc-tst ...............................fatal: caught
> signal Segmentation fault -- stopping myself...
> /bin/sh: line 1:  3771 Segmentation fault      (core dumped) /bin/sh
> ../run-octave --norc --silent --no-history -p
> /cygdrive/d/cyg_pub/devel/octave/prova_311_510/octave-5.1.0-2.x86_64/build/test/mex
> /cygdrive/d/cyg_pub/devel/octave/prova_311_510/octave-5.1.0-2.x86_64/src/octave-5.1.0/test/fntests.m
> /cygdrive/d/cyg_pub/devel/octave/prova_311_510/octave-5.1.0-2.x86_64/src/octave-5.1.0/test
> 
> make[3]: *** [Makefile:31176: check-local] Error 139
> 
> 
> I do not see any new cygwin package released in the last month that I
> installed that could cause the simple file tests to fail
> 
> %!test
> %! f = tempname ();
> %! fid = fopen (f, "w+");
> %! fprintf (fid, "1\n2\n3\n4\n5\n6");
> %! fseek (fid, 0, "bof");
> %! c = textscan (fid, "%f %f", 2);   <- here comes the segfault
> 
> I also tried the cygwin release 3.1.1 and 2020-01-14 snapshot
> in addition to the 3.1.2 to see if something different was
> coming with no difference in the outcome.
> 
> Now I am seriously thinking about BLODA, but I have not
> noted any difference from the two AVs I was using
> Antivir and MS Defender, so I am wandering if last
> update for W10 Home x64 is the culprit.

Also what W10 feature release YYMM and/or build NNNNN are you on?

> Can anyone try to rebuild the Octave package and let me know
> if the segfault during test is present or not in your system ?
> 
> Be aware that build time is very long (~ 4 hours) and requires
> a ton of mathematical libraries.
> 
> Any suggestion will be appreciated

Should this discussion perhaps be handled on cygwin-apps?
We don't always want to advertise just how messy the Cygwin package making
sausage factory can be. ;^>

I believe the following Cygwin tools and libraries packages, pulled from the
package doc build dependencies, and found and filtered using apt-cyg listall, to
be sufficient, but may not all be necessary, and should be added to
octave.cygport, where it can be used as a build dependency install package list
for apt-cyg or setup:

DEPEND="autoconf automake bison flex gcc-core gcc-fortran gcc-g++ gperf gnuplot
libtool make texinfo libopenblas liblapack-devel libpcre-devel libarpack-devel
libparpack-devel libcurl-devel libfftw3-devel libfltk-devel libfontconfig-devel
libfreetype-devel libglpk-devel libgl2ps-devel libGraphicsMagick-devel
libhdf5-devel libllvm-devel libportaudio-devel libQtOpenGL4-devel libqhull-devel
libqrupdate-devel libqscintilla2-devel libqscintilla2_qt4-devel
libqscintilla2_qt5-devel libqt3-devel libsuitesparseconfig-devel
libsundials-devel zlib-devel"

Are there any changes you would make, especially for arpack, OpenGL, qt, scintilla?

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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