Bug#863686: freemat: fails to start with llvm error

[Stuart Prescott]

Package: freemat
Version: 4.2+dfsg1-3+b2
Severity: serious
Justification: package is unusable

Dear Maintainer,

Starting a fresh installation of freemat fails:

$ freemat
: CommandLine Error: Option 'x86-machine-combiner' registered more than once!
LLVM ERROR: inconsistency in registered CommandLine options

By the looks of the buildd logs, the package doesn't seem to run the
tests at build time and they are not enabled as autopkgtest tests
for use on ci.debian.net so I can't easily see what has cause this
situation. (Perhaps it's possible to at least put a smoke test of
freemat into both places even if the entire test suite isn't run?)

cheers
Stuart


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers testing-proposed-updates
  APT policy: (550, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'testing'), (60, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64
 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages freemat depends on:
ii  freemat-data              4.2+dfsg1-3
ii  libarpack2                3.4.0-1+b1
ii  libboost-math1.62.0       1.62.0+dfsg-4
ii  libc6                     2.24-10
ii  libclang1-3.8             1:3.8.1-23
ii  libffi6                   3.2.1-6
ii  libfftw3-double3          3.3.5-3
ii  libfftw3-single3          3.3.5-3
ii  libgcc1                   1:6.3.0-18
ii  libgfortran3              6.3.0-18
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]  13.0.6-1+b2
ii  libglu1-mesa [libglu1]    9.0.0-2.1
ii  libncurses5               6.0+20161126-1
ii  libpcre3                  2:8.39-3
ii  libportaudio2             19.6.0-1
ii  libqt4-network            4:4.8.7+dfsg-11
ii  libqt4-opengl             4:4.8.7+dfsg-11
ii  libqt4-svg                4:4.8.7+dfsg-11
ii  libqt4-xml                4:4.8.7+dfsg-11
ii  libqtcore4                4:4.8.7+dfsg-11
ii  libqtgui4                 4:4.8.7+dfsg-11
ii  libquadmath0              6.3.0-18
ii  libstdc++6                6.3.0-18
ii  libtinfo5                 6.0+20161126-1
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.8.dfsg-5

Versions of packages freemat recommends:
ii  freemat-help  4.2+dfsg1-3

freemat suggests no packages.

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