[Python-modules-team] Bug#800392: Bug#800392: Bug#800392: python-numpy: FTBFS on powerpc due to test failure

[Sandro Tosi]

On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 8:05 AM, Julian Taylor
<jtaylor.debian at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 28.09.2015 20:58, Scott Kitterman wrote:
>>
>> Seems like this may be related to #702169.
>>
>
> no, powerpc is the arch with the broken malloc:
> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6527
>
> the test should probably just be ignored (as it has been in the past) it
> has always been broken and nobody ever cared.

Is there an elegant way to instruct numpy testsuite to just ignore
errors on powerpc? I would really love to keep the test failures as
blocking on all Debian archs. I cant think of any smart way to keep
the 'set -e' for all archs except powerpc

on way would be to just skip that test (in the last failure it was
always test_multiarray.TestClip.test_basic) but of course that doesnt
guarantee that other tests might fail after that (and we dont know
now) or that other test starts failing (because of the broken malloc
acting up).

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