Error when running test suite

[John Ralls]

On Nov 27, 2013, at 10:32 AM, Herbert Mühlburger <mail at muehlburger.at> wrote:

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> Hi folks,
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> I get the following log output when I try to run the test-suits via
> "make check" on my Ubuntu x86_64 using the latest commit
> ("96b258fada3ccf94a87c53c8433c24ca8c55eaae") on the master branch.
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> [...]
>  /qof/gnc-date/timespec cmp:                                         OK
>  /qof/gnc-date/timespec diff:                                        OK
>  /qof/gnc-date/timespec abs:                                         **
> ERROR:test-gnc-date.c:466:test_gnc_setlocale: code should not be
> reached OK
>  /qof/gnc-date/timespecCanonicalDayTime:                             OK
>  /qof/gnc-date/date get last mday:                                   OK
>  /qof/gnc-date/qof date format set:                                  OK
>  /qof/gnc-date/qof print date dmy buff:
> FAIL
> GTester: last random seed: R02Sf39a11d28ab3f06b60885612a7ce9193
> /bin/bash: line 1: 30556 Terminated              MALLOC_CHECK_=2
> MALLOC_PERTURB_=$((${RANDOM:-256} % 256)) gtester --verbose test-qof
> make[5]: *** [test-nonrecursive] Error 143
> make[5]: Leaving directory
> `/home/herbert/workspace/gnucash/src/libqof/qof/test'
> make[4]: *** [check-am] Error 2
> make[4]: Leaving directory
> `/home/herbert/workspace/gnucash/src/libqof/qof/test'
> make[3]: *** [check-recursive] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory
> `/home/herbert/workspace/gnucash/src/libqof/qof'
> make[2]: *** [check-recursive] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/herbert/workspace/gnucash/src/libqof'
> make[1]: *** [check-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/herbert/workspace/gnucash/src'
> make: *** [check-recursive] Error 1
> 
> Can somebody give me an advice on how I can fix this problem? My
> locale is "de_DE.UTF-8".


The comment ahead of that test function says:
/*
 * There are some differences between distros in the way they name
 * locales, and this can cause trouble with the locale-based
 * formatting. If you get the assert in this function, run locale -a
 * and make sure that en_US, en_GB, and fr_FR are installed and that
 * if a suffix is needed it's in the suffixes array.
 */

The reason is that the test exercises the date functions in those locales to ensure that
the i18n part of the date routines is functioning correctly.

Regards,
John Ralls