[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#796731: freecontact: FTBFS on mips (test suite failure)

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Dejan,

On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 02:44:50PM +0000, Dejan Latinovic wrote:
> I had tried to build freecontact locally on two different cavium boards.

Thanks for this.  (I'm running the build on gabrielli currently ... and yes,
it takes time).

> On both board build failed with TERM signal error on testing.
> > cov matrix Cholesky... not positive definite, dmean dev: 0.019706
> > cov matrix Cholesky... not positive definite, dmean dev: 0.0177354
> > cov matrix Cholesky... not positive definite, dmean dev: 0.0159619
> > cov matrix Cholesky... not positive definite, dmean dev: 0.0143657
> > cov matrix Cholesky... not positive definite, dmean dev: 0.0129291
> > cov matrix Cholesky...
> > shrank covariance matrix in 15300.1 secs
> > will try rho 0.00178064, exact solution
> >  iteration =   1Error: inverse covariance matrix estimation exceeded time limit (1800 sec).

Any chance to do a manual build on a more powerfull MIPS box which might
not run into this problem? 

Kind regards

      Andreas.

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