[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#960756: Bug#960756: python-biopython FTBFS on 32bit: test_NCBI_BLAST_tools.BlastDB failures

Tue Jun 9 15:32:20 BST 2020

Andreas Tille <tille at debian.org> writes:

> On Tue, Jun 09, 2020 at 02:25:58PM +0200, Étienne Mollier wrote:
>> My current impression is that makeblastdb is unable to work
>> properly on most 32 bits machines, because the amount of memory
>> needing to be addressed by the process looks like it might
>> exceed too easily 32 bits architectural limits.

That's entirely plausible; upstream tends to assume 64-bit systems
nowadays.  Explicitly supplying -blastdb_version 4 (the default prior to
BLAST+ 2.10.x) may help.

Thanks for calling this report to my attention!

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