Re: [regression] `make profile-install` fails in 2.10.1

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Oct 19, 2016, 21:05 UTC
Message-ID: <20161019210519.ubk5q54rrvbafch7@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAA6PgK5vtnZSqqZafMVGoy0Rv38=8e__uQvXaf2SyPePHuPjJA@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 01:15:56PM +0200, Jan Keromnes wrote:

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> - Problem: Is there a way to `make profile-install` but ignore
> occasional test failures, as these are not critical to get a useful
> hardware profile? (Note: In a previous thread, Dennis Kaarsemaker
> mentioned this is fixing a symptom, not the root cause, but it would
> still be great to get a working profile in spite of occasional test
> failures.)

No, there isn't a way currently. I agree with Dennis that we do want to ultimately fix the flaky tests, but at the same time, it does seem reasonable to use a partial test run for your profile results.

I suspect you'd need to switch the call to:

  $(MAKE) PROFILE=GEN -j1 -k test || true

to make it best-effort.

> - Related problem: `t3700-add.sh` fails again in 2.10.1 for me. More
> details below, and I can provide further debug information if you
> don't already know the problem.

I can't reproduce any problems with raciness there, but there is a known problem with running the script as root (which I guess you might be doing from your "make prefix=/usr" call). There's some discussion in http://public-inbox.org/git/20161010035756.38408-1-jeremyhu@apple.com/T/#u, but it looks like the patch stalled.

-Peff