Re: Test suite failure for gettext's gnulib on ARMv7HL

[Bruno Haible]

[Removing bug-gettext from CC.]

Bastien Nocera wrote:
> Gettext 0.20.2's gnulib copy has its test suite failing on Fedora
> rawhide on ARMv7HL.

The current release is gettext 0.21. And its gnulib tests fail in the
same way [1].

On the other hand, on an Ubuntu 14.04.6 (armhf) system, gettext 0.21
works perfectly fine.

> Those are the 2 failing tests:
> FAIL: test-strerror_r
> FAIL: test-perror2
> 
> Is there a good way to capture the actual failures on a non-interactive 
> system like those build systems?

You need an interactive system, preferrably with gdb on it.

The preferred way to debug such test failures is to create a testdir
for the modules:

  $ ./gnulib-tool --create-testdir --dir=/tmp/testdir --single-configure 
strerror_r perror

transfer it to the target system, and there run

  $ ./configure && make && make check

then
  $ gdb gltests/strerror_r
and
  $ gdb gltests/perror2

> Is this a problem that's known?

It has not been reported except in Fedora.

Bruno

[1] https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=48008336