Re: 29 failed tests in the Texinfo 7.1 testsuite on Debian with IBM POWER9

[Dennis Clarke]

On 6/1/24 05:55, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 01, 2024 at 01:17:59AM -0400, Dennis Clarke via Bug reports for the 
> GNU Texinfo documentation system wrote:
> > FAIL: test_scripts/nested_formats_texi_nested_formats.sh
> >
> > Why fail? I have no idea.
> >
> > This is Debian on an IBM POWER9 server :
>
> Maybe something to do with specifics of POWER9, I guess it could be
> somewhat peculiar.  Also the gcc seems very recent to me, could also be
> that.
>
> Could you please send the log file of any of these failed tests, for
> example
>
> tp/tests/nested_formats/test_log/texi_nested_formats.log
>
> > dax$ gcc --version
> > gcc (GENUNIX Thu May 30 01:20:34 UTC 2024) 14.1.0


The patch works !


dax$
dax$ grep -E '^\=\=\=|^Test|^\#' 
../texinfo-7.1_ppc64le_debian.003.check.log
============================================================================
Testsuite summary for GNU Texinfo 7.1
============================================================================
# TOTAL: 87
# PASS:  87
# SKIP:  0
# XFAIL: 0
# FAIL:  0
# XPASS: 0
# ERROR: 0
============================================================================
============================================================================
Testsuite summary for GNU Texinfo 7.1
============================================================================
# TOTAL: 59
# PASS:  59
# SKIP:  0
# XFAIL: 0
# FAIL:  0
# XPASS: 0
# ERROR: 0
============================================================================
============================================================================
Testsuite summary for GNU Texinfo 7.1
============================================================================
# TOTAL: 0
# PASS:  0
# SKIP:  0
# XFAIL: 0
# FAIL:  0
# XPASS: 0
# ERROR: 0
============================================================================
============================================================================
Testsuite summary for GNU Texinfo 7.1
============================================================================
# TOTAL: 110
# PASS:  73
# SKIP:  37
# XFAIL: 0
# FAIL:  0
# XPASS: 0
# ERROR: 0
============================================================================
============================================================================
Testsuite summary for GNU Texinfo 7.1
============================================================================
# TOTAL: 9
# PASS:  5
# SKIP:  4
# XFAIL: 0
# FAIL:  0
# XPASS: 0
# ERROR: 0
============================================================================
============================================================================
Testsuite summary for GNU Texinfo 7.1
============================================================================
# TOTAL: 1
# PASS:  1
# SKIP:  0
# XFAIL: 0
# FAIL:  0
# XPASS: 0
# ERROR: 0
============================================================================
============================================================================
Testsuite summary for GNU Texinfo 7.1
============================================================================
# TOTAL: 1
# PASS:  1
# SKIP:  0
# XFAIL: 0
# FAIL:  0
# XPASS: 0
# ERROR: 0
============================================================================
============================================================================
Testsuite summary for GNU Texinfo 7.1
============================================================================
# TOTAL: 1
# PASS:  1
# SKIP:  0
# XFAIL: 0
# FAIL:  0
# XPASS: 0
# ERROR: 0
============================================================================
dax$


Does no one test anything anymore on stuff other than RHEL on x86_64?

[ rant ]
I am willing to bet the RHEL on POWER10 stuff works flawlessly but no
one posts the changes back upstream.
[ end rant ]

Just as soon as I have a POWER10 in my life you can bet I will be doing
testing and work and getting that monster to serve open source goodness!


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Dennis Clarke
RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC
UNIX and Linux spoken