[Bioc-devel] Build error for CaDrA package on kunpeng2 Linux machine

[Martin Grigorov]

On Wed, Oct 18, 2023 at 11:11 PM Chau, Reina <rchau88 using bu.edu> wrote:

> Thank you both! I will look thru the links and see if I can implement a
> fix.
>

I'd be happy to test any patches if it will be easier for you !

Martin



>
> Best,
>
> Reina C.
>
> On Oct 18, 2023, at 4:03 PM, Martin Grigorov <martin.grigorov using gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Oct 18, 2023 at 10:48 PM Hervé Pagès <hpages.on.github using gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Reina,
>>
>> Note that CaDrA results on Mac ARM64 are also affected:
>> https://bioconductor.org/checkResults/devel/bioc-mac-arm64-LATEST/CaDrA/
>>
>> See Martin Grigorov's blog post here
>>
>> https://blog.bioconductor.org/posts/2023-06-09-debug-linux-arm64-on-docker/
>>
>> for how to debug Linux ARM64 related issues on a x86_64 host.
>>
>> Note that different architectures use slightly different floating point
>> arithmetic with slightly different precision. This can affect the
>> results of your numerical calculations. The degree to which they are
>> affected will vary greatly depending on what calculations you perform
>> and how you perform them. So it's important to implement things in a way
>> that tries to minimize the impact of these variations as much as possible.
>>
>
> See https://go.dev/ref/spec#Floating_point_operators for some further
> explanation of the problem and possible fix by explicit rounding (in
> Golang, but I guess something similar happens in R)
>
>
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> H.
>>
>>
>> On 10/18/23 10:46, Chau, Reina wrote:
>> > Hi Bioconductor Core Team,
>> >
>> > I’m the maintainer of CaDrA package, and recently, I notice that my
>> package built successfully for all platforms except on Kunpeng2 Linux
>> machine (seehttps://
>> bioconductor.org/checkResults/devel/bioc-LATEST/CaDrA/  andhttps://
>> bioconductor.org/checkResults/devel/bioc-LATEST/CaDrA/kunpeng2-checksrc.html
>> )
>> >
>> > I did try to figure out what is causing the different results using
>> this particular platform compare with others but with no resolves.
>> >
>> > Hope you can give me some guidance or feedback of why the build is
>> failing for this particular case.
>> >
>> > Thanks so much!
>> >
>> > Best,
>> >
>> > Reina C.
>> >
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>> --
>> Hervé Pagès
>>
>> Bioconductor Core Team
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