bug#22049: libreoffice compile error

[Ludovic Courtès]

Leo Famulari <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Tue, Dec 01, 2015 at 12:58:27AM -0500, Leo Famulari wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 10:14:49PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> > Leo Famulari <address@hidden> skribis:
>> > 
>> > > It looks like the problem is with a libreoffice dependency, ilmbase.
>> > > Looking at the build history on hydra.gnu.org, it hasn't built
>> > > successfully since at least 2015-02-25:
>> > > http://hydra.gnu.org/job/gnu/master/ilmbase-2.2.0.i686-linux
>> > 
>> > Right.  This sounds very much like a rounding issue, whereby the epsilon
>> > in floating-point number comparisons is to strict for 32-bit machines.
>> > 
>> > We should report it upstream, but I don’t see any clear way to report
>> > bugs, neither in README, nor on openexr.com.  Am I overlooking it?
>> 
>> openexr-devel appears to be the main list:
>> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/openexr-devel
>
> I'm happy to send a bug report to openexr-devel but I don't understand
> the issue well enough to write a decent report. Would it be sufficient to
> just copy your message, Ludovic? Along with information about the
> platform, of course.

I would suggest giving them as much information as possible about the
platform, including versions of dependencies, and an excerpt from the
build log (probably with a link to the full log on hydra.gnu.org.)

So, thanks in advance!  :-)

Ludo’.