From 3e6fdd5f8ac8f308531192f1d537570d69ea038e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Efraim Flashner Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2016 14:47:24 +0300 Subject: gnu: snap-aligner: Limit to x86_64. * gnu/packages/bioinformatics.scm (snap-aligner)[supported-systems]: Add note explaining why we build for x86_64 only. --- gnu/packages/bioinformatics.scm | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) (limited to 'gnu') diff --git a/gnu/packages/bioinformatics.scm b/gnu/packages/bioinformatics.scm index a633e93e85..b206f3344d 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/bioinformatics.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/bioinformatics.scm @@ -4395,6 +4395,11 @@ is one that takes arguments.") "SNAP is a fast and accurate aligner for short DNA reads. It is optimized for modern read lengths of 100 bases or higher, and takes advantage of these reads to align data quickly through a hash-based indexing scheme.") + ;; 32-bit systems are not supported by the unpatched code. + ;; Following the bug reports https://github.com/amplab/snap/issues/68 and + ;; https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=812378 we see that + ;; systems without a lot of memory cannot make good use of this program. + (supported-systems '("x86_64-linux")) (license license:asl2.0))) (define-public sortmerna -- cgit v1.2.3