[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#754756: libuv: FTBFS on kfreebsd-amd64: test suite issues

[Jérémy Lal]

Le dimanche 17 août 2014 à 12:45 +0200, Luca Bruno a écrit :
> Source: libuv
> Followup-For: Bug #754756
> 
> It looks like there are transient failures in the testsuite,
> which unfortunately aren't deterministic and I'm unable to 
> reproduce on my VMs and porter-boxes.
> Checking build-history, the same package fails-then-builds on 
> different machines without clear patterns.
> 
> As kfreebsd support doesn't seem too mature and these are keeping 
> behind also linux packages, I think we should either:
>  * drop the kfreebsd packages and remove them from testing
>  * ignore testsuite failures (only on kfreebsd?)
> 
> Any comments?

I suspect the problem isn't with libuv per se, rather with the tests
themselves. Can you identify a list of the tests that occasionally fail
on kfreebsd ?
Some libuv/nodejs tests fail when the environment is slow/under high
load...

Jérémy.