Make check failure in backend/dbi/test

Geert Janssens janssens-geert at telenet.be
Sat May 25 15:05:04 EDT 2013


I considered that, but
- the last change in that area has been months ago
- distcheck didn't fail for John when doing the last few releases
it's more likely not an issue with the gnucash sources directly.

John is looking into it by the way.

Geert

On Saturday 25 May 2013 14:36:25 Yawar Amin wrote:
> Hi Geert,
> 
> On 2013-05-03 07:59, Geert Janssens wrote:
> > With current trunk (being r22938), I run into this make check failure:
> > 
> > make[5]: Entering directory
> > `/kobaltnet/janssege/Development/Builds/gnucash-f18- [...]
> > I first thought it was due to some local staged patches, but even on a
> > clean tree I get this. No idea when it started. The most recent change in
> > the backend code was about 3 weeks ago by cstim: r22899 "Adding missing
> > GLIB_LIBS to LDFLAGS as needed for newer gcc/libtool"
> Have you tried doing a git bisect by any chance? If you run:
> 
> git bisect bad trunk
> git bisect good <some old commit that passes make check>
> git bisect run make check
> 
> Git should be able to pinpoint the exact commit that caused the failure.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Yawar


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