Re: [test] runtime failures with "main() should return report_errors()"

From: stefan (stefan_at_[hidden])
Date: 2020-08-14 14:33:23

On 2020-08-14 10:10 a.m., Peter Dimov via Boost wrote:
> stefan wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> With the Boost.Python tests I'm observing a couple of mysterious 
>> failures, where the test application fails *after* the actual test 
>> succeeded, with a message
>>
>> main() should return report_errors()
>>
>> I gather this error is emitted by the Boost.Lightweight_test library 
>> whenever a test's main() function does not call `report_errors()` at 
>> the end. The problem in my case is that my failing tests are not 
>> (explicitly) using Boost.Lightweight_test. In fact, in all of the 
>> failing cases I'm not even writing a `main()` function, as the test 
>> driver is a Python script that's importing a (test) module.
>>
>> For example: 
>> https://www.boost.org/development/tests/master/developer/output/teeks99-05-mc9-2a-32onarmv7l-boost-bin-v2-libs-python-test-auto_ptr-test-clang-linux-9~c++2a-debug-python-2-7-threading-multi-visibility-hidden.html
>
> Looks like this ought to have been fixed by 
> https://github.com/boostorg/python/pull/259/files. A search for 
> lightweight_test in boostorg/python turns up nothing else suspicious.

Oh, you are right ! I was looking at the test report from master, but 
was looking at the code from the `development` branch.

>
> This commit, along with all the others since April, hasn't been merged 
> to master though, and is consequently not in 1.74.

Yes, sorry about that. I'm now trying to catch up on a number of issues 
- unfortunately too late for 1.74, but will make sure to merge all the 
current work as soon as the release is done.

Stefan

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