Re: [libmicrohttpd] Test failures with 0.9.31

[Christian Grothoff]

Interesting, could this be related to a discussion we had on IRC today?

=> IRC:
12:40 <LRN> MHD tests randomly fail on the buildslave
12:40 <LRN> i suspect that this is due to the testsuite running in parallel
12:41 <LRN> (W32 slave has 4 virtual cores, whereas non-W32 slaves seem
to only have 1 virtual core)
12:42 <LRN> the fix is to either use -j1 in the master config, or
explicitly disable parallel testing in makefiles somehow
16:01 <grothoffhome> I don't know how to disable parallel testing, which
does sound like the better idea.   Do you?
16:14 <LRN> grothoff, you can enable the serial test harness by using
automake option "serial-tests"
16:14 <LRN>
http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Serial-Test-Harness.html#Serial-Test-Harness

16:16 <grothoffhome> LRN: then please just put that in.

=> SVN:
r30481 | LRN | 2013-10-30 16:34:40 +0100 (Wed, 30 Oct 2013) | 2 lines
Force the use of non-parallel testsuite

=> IRC:
17:33 <LRN> configure.ac:25: option `serial-tests' not recognized :(
17:33 <LRN> half of the slaves seem to be using old autoconf or something
17:34 <LRN>
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2013-01/msg00060.html

So this also depends on the specific automake version (older ones didn't
do tests in parallel?).

Anyway, please let me know if this helps...

Happy hacking!

Christian

On 10/30/2013 08:45 PM, Andreas Enge wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> when upgrading from 0.9.30 to 0.9.31 in the GNU Guix distribution,
> where all packages are built in a sparsely populated chroot, about
> half the tests in testcurl fail with messages similar to
>    Failed to bind to port 11080: Address already in use
> 
> I attach src/testcurl/test-suite.log. With the exact same setting,
> 0.9.30 passes all its tests. Our curl version is curl-7.28.1.
> 
> Andreas
>