Re: PARI/GP 2.17.2 testsuite hangs nondeterministically (macOS)

[Matthias Koeppe <mkoeppe@ucdavis.edu>]

For the audience: Normally, when a project requests additional details
regarding toolchain, dependencies etc., that is done for the
convenience of maintainers who wish to reproduce the reported bug on
their system.

On Mon, Oct 20, 2025 at 9:31 AM Bill Allombert
<Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux.fr> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Oct 18, 2025 at 03:08:50PM -0700, Matthias Koeppe wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 18, 2025 at 1:36 PM Bill Allombert
> > <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux.fr> wrote:
> > > > I test this on macOS 15 (Intel), 14, 15 (ARM), and 26, as provided by
> > > > GH Actions runners, https://github.com/actions/runner-images, using
> > > > the default compilers from Xcode (Apple clang).
> > >
> > > In general, I recommend to use an official clang release instead of XCode, which
> > > has often major bugs.
> >
> > That's all very well but I didn't come here for toolchain recommendations.
>
> If you require Xcode use, I suggest you report this bug to Apple.
> Alternatively, you can try to reproduce the problem with the binaries we
> provide.
>
> Cheers,
> Bill.



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