r22464 - gnucash/trunk/src/backend/dbi/test - Enable and correct all store-and-reload basic tests

John Ralls jralls at ceridwen.us
Fri Nov 2 18:26:57 EDT 2012


On Oct 31, 2012, at 6:50 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:

> John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> writes:
> 
>>>> So in order to make sure there wasn't something bad in my build
>>>> tree, I made new 'gnucash-clean' and 'gnucash-clean-build'
>>>> directories, checked-out a fresh set of sources and rebuilt
>>>> it. "make" worked, but I got the same result with "make check". Does
>>>> 'Error 143' mean anything to you?
>>> 
>>> I'm also building out of tree. I remember I had to make a softlink to
>>> the xml test file from the source directory to the build directory
>>> before the tests worked. This may have to be corrected in the build
>>> scripts.
>> 
>> Ah, that's the likely culprit. There's an XML file that's loaded by
>> the XML backend, and the test will program will crash if it can't find
>> the file. Before my last round of changes the test program didn't even
>> try to load because the xml backend wasn't loaded. There weren't any
>> asserts to check that it had, so it would always pass without actually
>> testing anything. Odd, though, that you're getting that weird error
>> message instead of the assert message from checking for backend errors
>> right after trying to load the file.
> 
> Perhaps change the test to use ${srcdir}/...

A little more involved than that, because the test file name was #defined inside the C files, but now fixed in r22511.

Regards,
John Ralls




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