Mark H Weaver writes: > efr...@flashner.co.il (Efraim Flashner) writes: > >> efraim pushed a commit to branch master >> in repository guix. >> >> commit b16b16e6c2ba9780ebdf936c325e06ebcc0a950b >> Author: Efraim Flashner <efr...@flashner.co.il> >> Date: Tue Aug 30 00:33:17 2016 +0300 >> >> gnu: gsl: Update to 2.2. >> >> * gnu/packages/maths.scm (gsl): Update to 2.2. > > FYI, I reverted this, because its test suite consistently fails on i686 > with errors that appear to indicate a genuine problem. Gsl is an > important package that many other packages depend on, e.g. inkscape, > which is needed to convert our grub background, and therefore we have > been unable to build i686 systems since this update.
Fwiw, GSL have released a new version 2.2.1, which aimed to revert changes to cholesky_decomp for backward compatibility (if I understand correctly). I tested the updated version locally on i686, unfortunately the problem for i686 persists. Alex
