Bug#842817: yorick-hdf5: FTBFS against HDF5 v1.10

Gilles Filippini pini at debian.org
Wed Nov 2 09:30:36 UTC 2016


Hi Thibaut,

On 2016-11-02 09:04, Thibaut Paumard wrote:
> The "long" type is 64-bit on 64-bit arches. My quick hack works only
> on these. The proper fix is more involving: I have to create a custom,
> opaque data type that will hold the actual hid_t.
> 
> However, overloading the comparison operator for this custom type is
> not easy, so I would have to provide an API to check for the validity
> of an id, and use that in the interpreted part of the code instead of
> "id>=0".
> 
> I guess you are targeting the transition freeze on Friday? I don't
> think I can make it. I could upload the quick hack to get this fixed
> for the 64-bit arches and disable the tests on the other arches (or
> get yorick-hdf5 removed from them, but that would also require an
> upload of Yorick, which has a meta package that depends on
> yorick-hdf5). Then I would have more time to fix yorick-hdf5 before
> the hard freeze.

Yes, this plan (quick hack + temporarily disabling tests on other archs) 
sounds sensible.

Thanks,

_g.



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