[GNC-dev] Test failure

Sun Jan 27 01:52:14 EST 2019

On 1/26/19 10:29 PM, John Ralls wrote:
> Stephen,
>
> By all means learn about git bisect, it's an extremely useful troubleshooting tool. But don't exercise yourself too much about this particular failure, Chris and I know exactly what commit caused it and that the underlying cause is a bug in ICU (International Components for Unicode, http://site.icu-project.org/) versions 57-62.

I figured the devs were way ahead of me.  And I'm burning the CPU this
evening finding that I can't compile 3.4-21 thru (I'm guessing) 3.4-38. 
I'm up to 3.4-29 at this point and already know that -37 and -38 don't
compile on my box.  But -39, -40, and -43 do.  Don't know about -41 and
-42 (and probably won't check them).

Busy day tomorrow so I doubt the cpu will even get warmed up!  It's
pushing 11 pm so I'll call it quits on this exercise.

Thanks for the details.

--Steve

>
> I had thought that the problem was confined to 1969, but tonight got https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797067 which makes me think that it's every year, so more testing needed.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
>
>> On Jan 26, 2019, at 5:55 PM, Stephen M. Butler <kg7je at arrl.net> wrote:
>>
>> On 1/26/19 3:13 AM, Christopher Lam wrote:
>>> Another experiment. Try prefix your build with "TZ=UTC " on current
>>> maint.
>>>
>>> Eg if using ninja, it'll be "TZ=UTC ninja check"
>>
>> TZ=UTC dpkg- -rfakeroot -b -uc
>>
>> ....
>>
>> End testing: Jan 27 01:47 UTC
>> + exit 2
>> debian/rules:65: recipe for target 'override_dh_auto_test' failed
>> make[1]: *** [override_dh_auto_test] Error 2
>> make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/steve/Projects/GnuCash/gnucash'
>> debian/rules:24: recipe for target 'build' failed
>> make: *** [build] Error 2
>> dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build subprocess returned exit
>> status 2
>>
>> Same error -- Test 109 that fails.
>>
>>
>> This is with the patches for 3.4.  I verified before Sabbath that 3.4
>> builds and passes the tests.  Tried your test first thing this evening
>> after git checkout maint and git pull.  I am at 3.4-43-g84d1c3645 which
>> builds but doesn't pass the tests.  So, I could build turning off the
>> test step.
>>
>> However, Friday I was learning more about git bisect to see if I could
>> figure out which patch caused the tests to start failing.  However, a
>> couple of items got in the way:  1--time;  2--some commits don't build. 
>> That messed me up a bit.  So, I may start over again with the bisect
>> (just for my own edification) and see what happens.  Maybe this time
>> I'll do a git describe each time and take notes so I'll be a little more
>> cognizant of what I'm learning.  <<did that make sense>>
>>
>>
>> --Steve (in the dark)
>>
>>> On Fri., 25 Jan. 2019, 11:52 Stephen M. Butler <kg7je at arrl.net
>>> <mailto:kg7je at arrl.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>    On 1/24/19 7:36 PM, Christopher Lam wrote:
>>>> Revert is a git terminology, not a gnucash one. Welcome to version
>>>> control.
>>>    That's the manual to which I referred.  It meant something else to my
>>>    mind when I first saw your post.  But, after further thought, my
>>>    previous thought was faulty.
>>>
>>>
>>>    My first boss after college would draw a picture to describe the
>>>    difference between a bug and a feature.
>>>
>>>    I can't draw so a word will have to do (at less than a thousand
>>>    words)!
>>>
>>>    BUG:  draw stick figure.
>>>
>>>
>>>    FEATURE:  Add pants, tie, gloves, shoes and a top hat.
>>>
>>>
>>>    MORAL:  A feature is a bug all dressed up and ready to go out.
>>>
>>>> Please remember this revert is reverting a buggy code with a
>>>    previous
>>>> buggy code, so, cannot be consisted safe to package; best wait until
>>>> the clever devs can find a proper fix for gnc-date.
>>>>
>>>> On Fri., 25 Jan. 2019, 05:46 Stephen M. Butler <kg7je at arrl.net
>>>    <mailto:kg7je at arrl.net>
>>>> <mailto:kg7je at arrl.net <mailto:kg7je at arrl.net>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>      OH!  Light bulb on!
>>>>      OK.  I understand what you said earlier.  I'll put the patches
>>>>      back into
>>>>      the packaging.
>>>>
>>>>      Thanks for clearing that up.
>>>>
>>>>      --Steve
>>>>
>>>>      PS Looking in manual for 'revert' command.
>>>>
>>>    -- 
>>>    Stephen M Butler, PMP, PSM
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