Re: gnustep-base tests

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

> On 10 May 2016, at 16:17, Eric Heintzmann <heintzmann.eric@free.fr> wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> Le 10/05/2016 11:41, Richard Frith-Macdonald a écrit :
>> 
>> On the one hand, the particular number format stuff is rarely used, so a bug 
>> there may not be important (and may depend on the particular ICU library 
>> shipped on the system).
> I've tried to use Tests/base/NSNumberFormatter/basic.m and 
> Tests/base/NSNumberFormatter/basic10.4.m from svn trunk without success.
> I latest ICU from debian unstable ie package: libicu55 (55.1-7) and 
> libicu-dev (55.1-7)
> 
> (It seems the is currently an ICU transition in debian unstable/testing. I 
> will investigate)
> 
> Should I disable the test at build time ?

You can do
testHopeful = YES;
before the testcase, and
testHopeful = NO;
after the testcase, to turn it into a 'hope' (something which should ideally 
pass, but may not).

>> On the other, we really want to fix *any* failure of the regression tests.
>> Does the same problem occur with gnustep-base from svn trunk?
>> Can you get a stack trace of the crash?
>> 
> I have these lines on screen when building:
> 
> *** stack smashing detected ***: ./obj/basic terminated
> ======= Backtrace: =========
> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x71fe5)[0x7ff6aeef6fe5]
> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__fortify_fail+0x37)[0x7ff6aef7e357]
> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__fortify_fail+0x0)[0x7ff6aef7e320]
> ./obj/basic(main+0xa4d)[0x401abd]
> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf0)[0x7ff6aeea5610]
> ./obj/basic(_start+0x29)[0x4021e9]

Unfortunately I have little idea how to interpret that :-(