Re: git can not be built for s390x since update to git-2.38.0

From: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 1, 2022, 19:05 UTC
Message-ID: <CAN0heSryxTbJXrRs7-aCNb6u9qXJnYjX7++Ji8jd=YeYTJfoaA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <f1a5f758-d81f-5985-9b5d-2f0dbfaac071@opensuse.org>

Hi Sarah,

On Tue, 1 Nov 2022 at 19:38, Sarah Julia Kriesch <sarah.kriesch@opensuse.org> wrote:

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> I am one of the zsystems Maintainers (s390x architecture) at openSUSE
> and git can not be built any more since the update from 2.37.3 to
> 2.38.0, and with 2.38.1 afterwards. We have tried to debug it.
>
> There is no real test error output, but we can identify, that it is
> happening in the test part with check-chainlint.

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> [  387s] make[1]: *** [Makefile:83: check-chainlint] Error 1
> [  387s] make[1]: Leaving directory
> '/home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/git-2.38.1/t'
> [  387s] make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> [  388s] make: *** [Makefile:3075: test] Error 2
> [  388s] error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.ztqAAp (%check)

> How can we fix this issue?

You can disable this feature by setting the GIT_TEST_CHAIN_LINT environment variable to "0". That should hopefully allow you to run the tests successfully.

That shouldn't risk you anything, like reduce test coverage or similar. That the tests are chainlint-ok (roughly speaking, that they are written the way the Git project likes its tests) has already been established by many others at this point.

I'm cc-ing the resident chainlint expert.

Martin