Re: Test suite issues in BiocNeighbors for i386

[Aaron Lun <infinite.monkeys.with.keyboards@gmail.com>]

Hm. I'm actually surprised that those tests run at all, given that I 
have the following line:

if (.Platform$r_arch=="i386") skip("giving up on i386!")

... from the days of struggling with 32-bit windows.

I've never had to deal with Linux i386, so I don't know where the 
relevant flag shows up, but I'm happy to skip them as well.

-A

On 10/9/23 03:00, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi Aaron,
>
> the Debian packaged BiocNeighbors has some test failures that occur
> only for i386 architecture.
> You can see the full build log here
>      https://ci.debian.net/data/autopkgtest/testing/i386/r/r-bioc-biocneighbors/37741244/log.gz
> Seeking for "Failed tests" brings you quickly to the affected tests.
>
> My guess is that relaxing precision might solve the issue in some but
> not all cases.
> Could you have some look into this?  Alternatively we might consider
> dropping support for i386 if its known to fail in some cases and its
> probably not relevant in practice any more.
>
> Kind regards
>         Andreas.