Re: Testsuite failures on ppc64, sparc64 and s390x (64-bit BE)

From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Date: Jan 4, 2020, 23:13 UTC
Message-ID: <4b4ae893-430f-6633-f0d9-0e89f9b89696@physik.fu-berlin.de>
In-Reply-To: <20200104224830.GF6570@camp.crustytoothpaste.net>

Hi Brian!

On 1/4/20 11:48 PM, brian m. carlson wrote:

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> Did you build your version of Git with Subversion support, and if so,
> which version of Subversion did you use (version of Debian package or
> other source)?  The tests that were failing all require git-svn, which
> in turn require libsvn-perl and subversion (/usr/bin/svn).  If you're
> missing those packages, the Subversion tests will automatically be
> skipped.

Good point. I just ran the configure script without any extra options.

I will have another look and make sure git-svn is enabled.

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> The latest version on master is 2.25-rc1, and that's failing in the
> Debian package.  I haven't checked recently, but last I looked, the
> Debian package wasn't applying any additional patches on top of Git, so
> the version you're getting off GitHub is literally the same version that
> you're getting in the Debian package.

Okay. I wasn't sure whether there were any additional commits after the 2.25-rc1 tag, I hadn't checked yet as I was doing these tests on the side while watching TV.

Adrian

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