Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Install: qa_volk_test_all fails on armv7

[Philip Balister]

On 12/04/2013 05:26 PM, Monahan-Mitchell, Tim wrote:
>>>>>> The volk test is failing on my gnuradio build on a Beaglebone Black
>>>>>> (armv7h) running Arch Linux Arm.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> # make test
>>>>>> start   1: qa_volk_test_all
>>>>>> *** 2 failures detected in test suite "Master Test Suite"1/177 Test   #1:
>>>>>> qa_volk_test_all .....................***Failed    9.88 sec
> 
>>>>>> Full output of ctest -V _R qa_volk_test_all is attatched.
> 
>>>>> which version of GNU Radio? These bugs were fixed on Nov. 19 and will be 
>>>>> a part of the 3.7.2.1 release.
>>>>> See bugs #582 and #583 on our Issues page.
>>>>> Tom
> 
>>>> After pulling the latest GR code (as of Dec 1) and doing a fresh build, my 
>>>> ARMv7 target's ctest output for qa_volk_test_all matches what Ken attached 
>>>> in the first message of this thread. So there is something still going on 
>>>> here. Is it possible some external component needs to be updated, that is 
>>>> outside of what's in the GR git tree?
> 
>>>> The output I originally logged in Bug #583 differs from our latest 
>>>> results, but the behavior is the same (in1/in2 values appear to match).
>>>> The output I originally logged in Bug #582 (for ARM target) remains the 
>>>> same (in1/in2 values differ by 1).
>>> I just did a fresh install on my ARMv7 of the entire OS and GNU Radio
>>> from the latest git checkout (was testing Balister's new OE manifest
>>> and SDK) and everything is working great here.
>  
>>> When you say you did a "fresh build", what does that really mean? One
>>> of the quirks of volk is that cmake /has/ to be rerun when these kinds
>>> of changes are made. Best really to clean up everything to make sure
>>> you're doing everything from a clean checkout. "git reset --hard; git
>>> pull origin master; git clean -dxf;". Then rerun cmake and make from a
>>> clean build directory.
>  
>>> The above might be overkill, so if you want a quicker test, start with
>>> the clean git pull of the latest head and just make sure to rerun
>>> cmake and make, not necessarily from an empty directory.
> 
> Hi, Tom,
> I tried these steps:
> - Uninstalled gnuradio (make uninstall).
> - apt-get update + apt-get upgrade for my ARM7 target (Ubuntu 13.04),
>   which updated quite a bit of stuff.
> - Deleted my gnuradio tree and re-cloned it.
> - Checkout maint branch.
> - Built as I have been doing.
> - Same problem :(
> 
> Hi, Philip,
>> Building gnuradio on an arm is silly :)
> I bow to the sheer power of your A15 toolchain-rebuild cross-compile x86 
> prowess. :)
> 
>> I am wondering if the QA failure is relates, to the use of the hard float 
>> ABI.
> For me, whenever I have tried to specify hard or soft float ABI, cmake fails. 
> If I don't specify it, it just works...
> 
>> I'm switching my OE builds to armthf now so I can compare my results with 
>> Tom's.
> Thanks!

I'm working on a real fix for the qa code (not just symlinking until it
works) Hopefully, I can confirm hard float status tomorrow.

Philip

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