Bug 735673 - Rebulding atlas fails if cpufreq scaling is enabled
Summary: Rebulding atlas fails if cpufreq scaling is enabled
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: atlas
Version: 15
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Deji Akingunola
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-09-04 20:27 UTC by Henrik Nordström
Modified: 2012-08-07 15:51 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2012-08-07 15:51:24 UTC
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Description Henrik Nordström 2011-09-04 20:27:00 UTC
Description of problem:

Fails to build if cpufreq scaling is enabled

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

atlas-3.8.4-1.fc15.src.rpm

How reproducible:

always with cpufreq scaling enabled, even if running at max frequency

Steps to Reproduce:
1. cpufreq governor set to anything else than performance
2.
3.
  
Actual results:

Build fails with

CPU Throttling apparently enabled!
It appears you have cpu throttling enabled, which makes timings
unreliable and an ATLAS install nonsensical.  Aborting.
See ATLAS/INSTALL.txt for further information
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.v5rcmF (%build)

Expected results:

Build continue anyway.

Additional info:

Earlier versions did override this by using a configure flag
  -Si cputhrchk 0
which was removed in this package version because "upstream frowns at it".

Requiring this specific build conditions for a distro-wide binary build do not make much sense. There is no guarantee koji hosts will have cpufreq disabled, and any measurements done by the package will anyway only be matching the koji hosts and most likely very load dependent and unpreductable anyway. If this package needs to perform such detailed hardware measurements it's better provided with a preconfigured hardware profile making builds reproducible and controllable.

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