Re: Building GNUstep from source - failed tests

[David Chisnall]

I think that these failures are things I fixed in the svn version of libobjc2 
last week - please can you make sure that you have the latest version?

David

On 12 Jan 2013, at 09:23, edwin ancaer wrote:

> Hello, 
> 
> I was looking for an interesting platform to refresh my programming skills. 
> After looking around a while, it found GNUstep/Etoilé looking interesting.
> 
> I've been building GNUstep following the instructions in 'Downloads: 
> Installation instruction'  on the Etoilé website. 
> 
> Everything went fine I sucessfully built make, base, gui and back. 
> 
> However, when I ran the 'make check' for the base package, I got the 
> following result:
> 
>    7552 Passed tests
>      25 Failed tests
>      19 Dashed hopes
>       5 Skipped sets
>       1 Failed file
> 
> Given the fact that ProjectCenter seems to be working fine, do I have to 
> worry about this, or is it normal that some tasts fail? 
> 
> The failed tests are of the form: 
> Testing propertyAttrs.m...
> Running base/Functions/propertyAttrs.m...
> Passed test:     Lookup succeeded for property charDefault
> Passed test:     Proprety name should be 'charDefault' was 'charDefault'
> Failed test:     Property attributes for charDefault should be 
> 'Tc,VcharDefault' was 'TcVcharDefault'
> Passed test:     Lookup succeeded for property doubleDefault
> Passed test:     Proprety name should be 'doubleDefault' was 'doubleDefault'
> Failed test:     Property attributes for doubleDefault should be 
> 'Td,VdoubleDefault' was 'TdVdoubleDefault'
> Passed test:     Lookup succeeded for property enumDefault
> Passed test:     Proprety name should be 'enumDefault' was 'enumDefault'
> Failed test:     Property attributes for enumDefault should be 
> 'Ti,VenumDefault' was 'TiVenumDefault'
> Passed test:     Lookup succeeded for property floatDefault
> 
> To me it seems like they are coding, so I wonder if I've been using the 
> sources of a developmant version?
> 
> Further, how do I have to interpret these errors from the tests: are they 
> really pointing to serous problems, given the fact that ProjectCenter (seems) 
> to work correctly? 
> 
> Thanks in advance for helping out,, 
> 
> Edwin Ancaer   . 
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