Re: migration to htslib ecosystem 1.18

Étienne Mollier <[email protected]> Wed, 8 Nov 2023 17:21:59 +0100

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Hi Andreas,

Étienne Mollier, on 2023-11-08:
> Andreas Tille, on 2023-11-08:
> > These timeout thingies are really hard to debug.  Maybe we should simply
> > shorten the jellyfish test suite to avoid this.  For instance droping
> > the `/usr/lib/jellyfish/bin/test_all` call at the end makes the test
> > more sensible (also in terms of not stressing debci infrastructure to
> > much?
> > 
> > What do you think?
> 
> I did not anticipate that issue with the experimental upload.
> Drop of the affected would be the fastest way of "correcting"
> the issue.  I'm a bit bugged that this affects the arm64
> platform only and not the 32-bit variants, but perhaps the test
> suite is already disabled for them.
> 
> My "go to" mitigation for these sort of weird issues on arm
> platforms would be to rebuild with option -fsigned-char, to
> ensure this is not a case of char types being used as a short
> integer assumed to be signed.  I'm having a look at these now;
> there is also the risk that the test enters the infinite loop
> unpredictably.

Test pass on arm64 on my end.  Either there is something off
with one of the arm64 runners or the test if flaky.  I'll
trigger a rerun of the official CI to see; also a couple more
test attempts locally just in case.

Have a nice day,  :)
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