[GNC-dev] GnuCash 4.4 tests failing

[Manfred Usselmann]

Am 03.01.2021 19:43, schrieb Manfred Usselmann:
> Am 03.01.2021 18:18, schrieb John Ralls:
>>> On Jan 3, 2021, at 5:12 AM, Manfred Usselmann <manfred at usselmann.de> 
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I'm building GnuCash 4.4 for Void Linux. The build itself is 
>>> successful and GC seems to run ok, but when I run the test suite with 
>>> the released code some tests do fail:
>>> 
>>>    96% tests passed, 4 tests failed out of 111
>>> 
>>>    The following tests FAILED:
>>>             31 - test-qof (Subprocess aborted)
>>>             54 - test-gnc-numeric (Failed)
>>>             55 - test-gnc-timezone (Failed)
>>>             56 - test-gnc-datetime (Failed)
>>> 
>>> For details see attached log. Can this be ignored and the package 
>>> released despite of these failed tests?
>> 
>> The failures appear to be down to your not having the fr_FR and de_DE
>> locales installed and to not having time zone info support. The
>> locales are needed only for testing, but if TZ info is an optional
>> package on Void Linux then it should be added as a package dependency.
>> If TZ info is installed and GnuCash can't find it then you need to
>> figure out exactly what's going wrong.
> 
> I had de_DE, en_GB and en_US installed and the package tzdata
> (/usr/share/zoneinfo).
> 
> Additionally I have now installed fr_FR and tzutil, but I'm still
> getting the same errors...

Sorry, after adding tzdata as dependency test 55 and 56 run successful 
now and only the locale issue remains, which can probably be ignored...

Regards,
Manfred