Bug#712848: FTBFS on kfreebsd-*: test-suite hangs and is killed after a timeout

[Simon McVittie]

On 21/07/14 13:41, Steven Chamberlain wrote:
> * what's a FATAL-WARNING?

It's a warning that is not normally fatal for user applications, but has
been made fatal by GLib's regression test framework.

The hierarchy of GLib logging is:

* error (always fatal)
* critical (critical warning, sometimes fatal)
* warning (ordinary warning, sometimes fatal)
* message
* info (rarely used)
* debug

Lower-severity messages can be made fatal by C code too, but it doesn't
make any sense to do so.

The GTest framework (glib/gtestutils.c) changes the handling of log
messages to make warnings and criticals fatal.

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