[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Bug#918366: Bug#918366: FTBFS for armhf on arm64, fails some tests

[Steve McIntyre]

On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 06:17:58PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>On Sat, Jan 05, 2019 at 03:56:50PM +0000, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
>>> On 5 Jan 2019, at 15:00, Steve McIntyre <steve at einval.com> wrote:
>
>...
>
>>> I'm honestly not sure about what casues the failures. Is a "dashed
>>> hope" a test fail? :-(
>>
>>That's a test skipped because it's one that depends on the software having been installed.
>>A test skipped because it depends on a different compiler than trhe one being used.
>>And no,  a dashed hope is not a failure.  it's a testcase/feature still under development.
>
>OK, thanks for clarifying.
>
>>So there are no test failures in the log.
>>You can tell when test case fails because the detailed log says 'Failed'.
>>Also if you just look at the output from the test run (stdout), rather than the detailed log files, it gives a clear summary.
>>
>>eg.
>>$ gnustep-tests NSDate 
>>--- Running tests in NSDate ---
>>
>>     50 Passed tests
>>
>>All OK!
>>$ 
>
>I'll check that shortly.

Straight after a build, I've just tried:

(sid-armhf)steve at mjolnir:~/debian/build/gnustep-base/gnustep-base-1.25.1$ gnustep-tests NSCharacterSets 
You forgot to set your GNUSTEP_MAKEFILES environment variable.
Setting it to /usr/share/GNUstep/Makefiles during this test run.
No directories with 'TestInfo' marker file in 'NSCharacterSets'.
No tests found in 'NSCharacterSets'.

No tests found.

All OK!
(sid-armhf)steve at mjolnir:~/debian/build/gnustep-base/gnustep-base-1.25.1$ gnustep-tests Source 
You forgot to set your GNUSTEP_MAKEFILES environment variable.
Setting it to /usr/share/GNUstep/Makefiles during this test run.
No directories with 'TestInfo' marker file in 'Source'.
No tests found in 'Source'.

No tests found.

All OK!
(sid-armhf)steve at mjolnir:~/debian/build/gnustep-base/gnustep-base-1.25.1$ gnustep-tests Tools 
You forgot to set your GNUSTEP_MAKEFILES environment variable.
Setting it to /usr/share/GNUstep/Makefiles during this test run.
No directories with 'TestInfo' marker file in 'Tools'.
No tests found in 'Tools'.

No tests found.

All OK!
(sid-armhf)steve at mjolnir:~/debian/build/gnustep-base/gnustep-base-1.25.1$ gnustep-tests 
You forgot to set your GNUSTEP_MAKEFILES environment variable.
Setting it to /usr/share/GNUstep/Makefiles during this test run.
Checking for presence of test subdirectories ...
No test subdirectories found.

No tests found.

All OK!
(sid-armhf)steve at mjolnir:~/debian/build/gnustep-base/gnustep-base-1.25.1$ gnustep-tests Tests 
You forgot to set your GNUSTEP_MAKEFILES environment variable.
Setting it to /usr/share/GNUstep/Makefiles during this test run.
--- Running tests in Tests/base/Functions ---

Tests/base/Functions/NSByteSwapping.m:
Failed build:     

Tests/base/Functions/NSGeometry1.m:
Failed build:     

Tests/base/Functions/NSPathUtilities.m:
Failed build:     

Tests/base/Functions/NSZone.m:
Failed build:     

Tests/base/Functions/class_hierarchy.m:
Failed build:     

Tests/base/Functions/clsCreate.m:
Failed build:     
^C

Sorry, I've no idea how to drive this...

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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve at einval.com
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