Re: Massive testsuite failure on !(Linux || Solaris 8+)

From: Gary V. Vaughan <git@mlists.thewrittenword.com>
Date: Apr 26, 2010, 17:03 UTC
Message-ID: <20100426170301.GD28004@thor.il.thewrittenword.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100426074411.GA31428@progeny.tock>

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 02:44:11AM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

> Hi Gary,

Hi Jonathan,

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> Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> 
> > I have full logs on all hosts, up until t9300 test 120, which hangs (I
> > left it overnight to be sure since some of these machines are quite
> > old and slow) the testsuite until SIGINT.  The logs are, obviously,
> > huge so I won't post them here,
> 
> What tends be most useful is output from
> 
>   GIT_TEST_OPTS='-v -i' gmake test
> 
> [[...]]
> 
> Also, if you would like to investigate, you might find it useful to
> use
> 
>   sh -x relevant-test.sh
> 
> [[...]]
> 
> Hope that helps,

It does, thanks. I've added looking into this to my TODO list... it's relatively important that the testsuite is (at least mostly) useful on our supported platforms as a sanity check against our patched builds of git on those platforms.

I'll post any patches or further questions that arise back here in due course.

Cheers,

-- 
Gary V. Vaughan (gary@thewrittenword.com)