Re: Adopt a platform today!

[Sebastian Reitenbach]

Hi,
On Wednesday, February 23, 2011 08:38:20 am Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
> On 22 Feb 2011, at 18:07, Sebastian Reitenbach wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > this happens on OpenBSD/i386 for the base tests:
> > 
> > 4989 Passed tests
> > 140 Failed files
> > 108 Failed builds
> > 
> >   2 Failed tests
> >   2 Dashed hopes
> > 
> > Some of the failed files, about 5 to 10 i killed, since at least some of
> > them were running for about half an hour already, so I thought there
> > sth. might be screwed? Or is that normal, and I was just too impatient,
> > and should rerun it, and leave it running? The tests.sum is attached.
> 
> Some tests *are* slow (particularly the I/O related ones where we trying
> reading/writing data in lots of different sized blocks in order to check
> for buffer size issues), and I know you run things on slow machines, but
> even so that sounds like a very long time. Also, looking at the summary,
> the output doesn't look right ... so maybe there's a problem with the test
> framework. I don't know when you checked it out from svn, but there have
> been a lot of changes made in the last few days,  some will have
> temporarily broken things, some were for performance improvements, and
> some were addressing portability issues.  It would be worth checking out a
> new copy (and making note of the svn revision you checked out) and trying
> that.
> 
> It's also possible for individual tests to hang ... I've just found that it
> looks like on solaris 8 the system locking implementation doesn't actually
> support the pthreads api properly and that causes one of the locking tests
> to deadlock :-(

The svn checkout was from yesterday in the morning, but I've seen a lot of 
things happened yesterday, so I'll just try again, and try to be more 
patient...

Sebastian