Re: Test suite fails on alpha architecture

Hi *:

Martin Pitt escribió:
> Hi,
>
> Tom Lane [2007-11-03 14:27 -0400]:
>> Martin Pitt <martin@piware.de> writes:
>>> The testsuite of 8.3 beta 2 fails on the Alpha architecture (versions
>>> up to 8.2 worked fine).
>> We redid some of the float error handling for 8.3, in hopes of getting
>> closer to the IEEE standard behavior for NaNs and infinities and so on.
>> I guess that isn't working on your Alpha.  I have a vague recollection
>> that Alphas use non-IEEE floats so maybe this is not too surprising.
>>
>> Can you grant one of us access to the machine to work on it?
>
> I don't own any alpha machine, but maybe Frank, Steven, or anyone from
> the Debian alpha porter list can create a temporary account for you?
>
>> Or poke into it yourself?
>
> There is no developer accessible alpha porter box for Debian
> unfortunately. :(
>

Since Debian is having some problems with its alpha development machine,
the Gentoo/Alpha port is happy to offer some help with this problem.

We can provide with shell account access (or even a chroot) in our
development machine (AlphaServer ES40) for debugging this PostgreSQL
bug. If it only happens on Debian, I could create a debian chroot for
testing.

Gentoo/Alpha Team can be reached by mail: alpha@gentoo.org or by IRC in
Freenode #gentoo-alpha.

Thanks and feel free to ask if you need something more.

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Jose Luis Rivero <yoswink@gentoo.org>
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