[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#639636: [node-dev] Re: Bug#639636: nodejs: FTBFS/armel - testsuite fails

[Ben Noordhuis]

On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 20:02, Jérémy Lal <kapouer at melix.org> wrote:
> On 05/12/2011 17:51, Jérémy Lal wrote:
>> Thanks to the abel guest access i got, libv8 builds and pass tests on armel and armhf.
>> I'm still having *one* test failing, if anyone has an idea about why :
>>
>>    var f = new Buffer('über', 'ucs2');
>>    assert.deepEqual(f, new Buffer([252, 0, 98, 0, 101, 0, 114, 0]));
>>
>> Giving this result :
>> https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=nodejs&arch=armel&ver=0.4.12-2&stamp=1323100281&file=log
>>
>> Couldn't be linked to some wrong endianness assumption ?
>
> It isn't, after doing some testing on abel, i observe this strange behavior :
>   build/default/node /home/kapouer/nodejs/nodejs-0.4.12/test/simple/test-buffer.js
> never outputs errors,
> while
>   python tools/test.py simple/test-buffer
> always does.
>
> I'm stuck.
>
> Jérémy.
>
>
> PS: wild cc-ing nodejs-dev, in case someone there already knows why :)
>    the test mentionned above is the only one failing, and it's been there for a long time.

It looks like a off-by-one error. To wit:

  {"0":252,"1":0,"2":98,"3":0,"4":101,"5":0,"6":114,"7":0
  {        "0":0,"1":98,"2":0,"3":101,"4":0,"5":114,"6":0,"7":120

It's quite possibly been fixed. Does it happen with v0.6.5?