Re: [Help] Testsuite of abinit fails on mips

Hi Stuart,

On Wed, Sep 03, 2014 at 05:56:28PM +1000, Stuart Prescott wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
> 
> A while ago I looked at abinit 7.4.2 and 7.4.3 and found that it had lots of 
> test failures on both amd64 and i386. Looking closely at those failures, I 
> found that they were all differences at the 7th or 8th significant figure 
> between test output and a sample output that was prepared by an executable 
> from a different compiler (ifort, iirc) with different libraries etc.
> 
> That said, the error messages you have in that build log are different to 
> what I recall. The test suite actually generates quite a lot of extra output 
> that you can browse through -- you'd have to jump on a porter box and redo 
> the build (all 12 hours of it!?) to get that information.
> 
> (Yes, this arch might have uncovered some bug in abinit or its test suite or 
> in gfortran... but this is one of those packages that no-one is going ever 
> going to use on mips. If it takes 25-times as long to compile it on mips vs 
> i386, I wonder which platform will be picked to do the simulations with 
> abinit?)

Seems it would be the most sensible solution to exclude mips architecture,
right?

Thanks for your investigation (also the former ones)

    Andreas. 

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