Re: Does scripts/auxilar/make-regtest-pngs.sh function properly?

[David Kastrup]

John Wheeler <wheelerwjx9@runbox.com> writes:

> I am trying to get the process documented in CG: 9.5 "Pixel-base
> regtest comparison" to run.   But, I am not able to get the command
>
> ./make-regtest-pngs.sh -j4 -o
>
> to run without error.  Using git bisect points to commit
> c85e9950a70d1765e4b9a637a737d873975dfb59, "Framework-ps: rewrite
> system clipping to be output format-agnostic" as the point at which it
> started failing.
>
> On the other hand, If I have a successfully generated
> 'old-regtest-results',
>
> ./make-regtest-pngs.sh -j4 -n
>
> will happily run well past that commit.
>
> I see a lot of discussion on !1272 saying the script should be kept,
> which seems to imply that the script should works.
>
> Is this a known issue?

Likely not.  Kind of unusual error conditions.  Looking at that commit,
it would seem more likely that this commit needs fixing rather than the
scripts since they don't seem related at all and the script does not
seem to rely on any strange semantics.

However, it seems decidedly weird to be running ./make-regtest-pngs.sh
instead of, say, scripts/auxiliar/make-regtests-pngs.sh here: it may
just be that you are running the script in a directory completely
unsuitable for it.  I'll take a look at the instructions.

-- 
David Kastrup