Bug#699417: scalc: FTBFS with ugly testsuite failure that looks bogus

2013-01-31 Thread Vincent Fourmond
Hello, On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 10:30 AM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > there are testsuite failures (despite the nocheck build option), > but the outputs provided look identical (WTF?). That's the magic of floating-points operations ;-)... There has to be a certain tolerance for comparing results

Bug#699417: scalc: FTBFS with ugly testsuite failure that looks bogus

2013-01-31 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Source: scalc Version: 0.2.4-1 Severity: important Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the past) Hi, there are testsuite failures (despite the nocheck build option), but the outputs provided look identical (WTF?). One should add that m68k, like i8087, has 80 bits