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bug#49665: 28.0.50; Failing autorevert tests on Cygwin
From: |
Michael Albinus |
Subject: |
bug#49665: 28.0.50; Failing autorevert tests on Cygwin |
Date: |
Tue, 20 Jul 2021 19:37:16 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu> writes:
Hi Ken,
> Some of the autorevert tests fail on Cygwin. The precise tests that
> fail aren't the same in every run, but here's the result of the most
> recent run on my 64-bit Cygwin system:
[...]
> I'm not interested in spending a lot of time on this (or asking anyone
> else to spend time on it), because I've never seen a Cygwin user
> complain about auto-revert mode. (Maybe no one uses it because it's
> slow.) But I would like to stop seeing the test failures.
>
> Here's one possibility: Skip test02 and test05 on Cygwin, with a FIXME
> comment indicating that they've been failing for a long time and we
> don't know why. Tag test00, test01, and test03 as expensive on Cygwin,
> since we would have to make the tests much slower in order for them to
> pass. I'm not sure about test07.
>
> Other suggestions?
We have the tag :unstable for such tests. You might tag all tests you're
not interested in. Something like this after the docstring:
:tags (when (eq system-type 'cygwin) '(:unstable))
Perhaps also a comment.
If you could provide me a recent Emacs 28 for cygwin, I could try to
check what's up.
> Thanks.
>
> Ken
Best regards, Michael.