Problems with make check and guile, apparently

[Colin Law]

On 11 May 2016 at 10:48, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am having getting make check to pass for reasons unknown to me.

I appear to have got over this by doing a clean checkout and starting
from scratch.  Why this should work when
git clean -f -d
followed by autogen, configure, make and make check does not work, I
don't understand.

Colin

>  In
> src/engine/test/test-suite.log I see
>
> ====================================================
>    GnuCash 2.6.12: src/engine/test/test-suite.log
> ====================================================
>
> # TOTAL: 27
> # PASS:  24
> # SKIP:  0
> # XFAIL: 0
> # FAIL:  3
> # XPASS: 0
> # ERROR: 0
>
> .. contents:: :depth: 2
>
> FAIL: test-test-extras
> ======================
>
> ;;; note: auto-compilation is enabled, set GUILE_AUTO_COMPILE=0
> ;;;       or pass the --no-auto-compile argument to disable.
> ;;; compiling /home/colinl/apps/gnucash_git/src/engine/test/./test-test-extras.scm
> ;;; WARNING: compilation of
> /home/colinl/apps/gnucash_git/src/engine/test/./test-test-extras.scm
> failed:
> ;;; ERROR: no code for module (gnucash engine test test-extras)
> Backtrace:
> In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
>  157: 17 [catch #t #<catch-closure 1d5d560> ...]
> In unknown file:
>    ?: 16 [apply-smob/1 #<catch-closure 1d5d560>]
> In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
>   63: 15 [call-with-prompt prompt0 ...]
> In ice-9/eval.scm:
>  432: 14 [eval # #]
> In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
> 2401: 13 [save-module-excursion #<procedure 1d7ba40 at
> ice-9/boot-9.scm:4045:3 ()>]
> 4052: 12 [#<procedure 1d7ba40 at ice-9/boot-9.scm:4045:3 ()>]
> 1724: 11 [%start-stack load-stack ...]
> 1729: 10 [#<procedure 29da600 ()>]
> In unknown file:
>    ?: 9 [primitive-load
> "/home/colinl/apps/gnucash_git/src/engine/test/./test-test-extras.scm"]
> In ice-9/eval.scm:
>  505: 8 [#<procedure 1c2d3e0 at ice-9/eval.scm:499:4 (exp)> (use-modules #)]
> In ice-9/psyntax.scm:
> 1106: 7 [expand-top-sequence ((use-modules (gnucash engine test ...))) () ...]
>  989: 6 [scan ((use-modules (gnucash engine test ...))) () ...]
>  279: 5 [scan ((# #) #(syntax-object *unspecified* # #)) () (()) ...]
> In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
> 3597: 4 [process-use-modules (((gnucash engine test test-extras)))]
>  702: 3 [map #<procedure 1ceda00 at ice-9/boot-9.scm:3597:25 (mif-args)> ((#))]
> 3598: 2 [#<procedure 1ceda00 at ice-9/boot-9.scm:3597:25 (mif-args)> (#)]
> 2867: 1 [resolve-interface (gnucash engine test ...) #:select ...]
> In unknown file:
>    ?: 0 [scm-error misc-error #f ...]
>
> ERROR: In procedure scm-error:
> ERROR: no code for module (gnucash engine test test-extras)
> FAIL test-test-extras (exit status: 1)
>
> Followed by several other similar reports.  Having searched the list I
> found suggestions to delete ~/.cache/guile/ccache but that did not
> help, in fact I tried deleting ~/.cache/guile but again I still get
> the error.  A few days ago make check was ok but I don't know what I
> may have done to mess it up.  The only file modified (from the maint
> branch) is gnc-backend-dbi.c which does not appear to be related to
> the problem.
>
> This is running on Ubuntu 16.04.
>
> Any help will be much appreciated.
>
> Colin