Julia and Ocaml (was Re: Graphical login broken on core-updates)

[Simon Tournier]

Hi Andreas,

On mer., 12 avril 2023 at 15:57, Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> wrote:

> first the good news: On my x86_64 machine, most of what I need is available
> from core-updates. I just updated my system and one user. This includes

[...]

> - unison (so also ocaml)

Well, OCaml is not in good shape.  The update of grep breaks
ocaml-ppxlib-0.25.1 and so many OCaml packages.

core-updates:
https://ci.guix.gnu.org/build/823639/details

master:
https://ci.guix.gnu.org/build/345262/details


Well, from <https://ci.guix.gnu.org/eval/390508/dashboard> we see some
broken ecosystem, as Julia or Tryton or Python.

About Julia [1], it comes from the update of mpfr and I have no clue how
to fix that.  Any idea?

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Error in testset mpfr:
Test Failed at /tmp/guix-build-julia-1.8.3.drv-0/julia-1.8.3/test/mpfr.jl:664
  Expression: string(nextfloat(BigFloat(1))) == str
   Evaluated: "1.0" == 
"1.000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000012"
Error in testset mpfr:
Test Failed at /tmp/guix-build-julia-1.8.3.drv-0/julia-1.8.3/test/mpfr.jl:667
  Expression: string(parse(BigFloat, "0.1")) == "0.10000002"
   Evaluated: "0.1" == "0.10000002"
Error in testset mpfr:
Test Failed at /tmp/guix-build-julia-1.8.3.drv-0/julia-1.8.3/test/mpfr.jl:669
  Expression: string(parse(BigFloat, "-9.9")) == "-9.9000015"
   Evaluated: "-10.0" == "-9.9000015"
Error in testset mpfr:
Test Failed at /tmp/guix-build-julia-1.8.3.drv-0/julia-1.8.3/test/mpfr.jl:672
  Expression: string(parse(BigFloat, "0.1")) == "0.10000000000002"
   Evaluated: "0.1" == "0.10000000000002"
Error in testset mpfr:
Test Failed at /tmp/guix-build-julia-1.8.3.drv-0/julia-1.8.3/test/mpfr.jl:674
  Expression: string(parse(BigFloat, "-9.9")) == "-9.8999999999942"
   Evaluated: "-10.0" == "-9.8999999999942"
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1: https://ci.guix.gnu.org/build/826760/log/raw


Cheers,
simon