Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add samtools

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Mark H Weaver writes:
> This built successfully on x86_64, but on i686 its test suite shows 87
> failures ("SAM files differ").  See:
>
>   http://hydra.gnu.org/build/173180
>   http://hydra.gnu.org/build/173180/log/raw

Apparently, these 87 test failures on non-64-bit architectures are
upstream problems with the test data for version 1.1.  According to the
developers the test data does not actually comply with the SAM specs,
see <https://github.com/samtools/samtools/pull/307> and the linked
discussion.

This has been fixed in later commits, but there hasn't been a new
release yet.

Can we disable the test suite for certain architectures?  Or would they
have to be disabled completely?