Re: [Boost-testing] [1.34] Regressions

From: Martin Wille (mw8329_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-05-03 16:16:13

David Abrahams wrote:
> The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
> that has been posted to gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel,gmane.comp.lib.boost.testing as well.
> 
> [folowups to testing]
> 
> Thomas Witt <witt_at_[hidden]> writes:
> 
> 
>>David Abrahams wrote:
>>
>>>Thomas Witt <witt_at_[hidden]> writes:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Hi,
>>>>
>>>>The following libraries show fails across almost all platforms in the 
>>>>1.34 regression tests
>>>>
>>>>concept_check
>>>>io
>>>>mpl
>>>>ptr_container
>>>>python
>>>>wave
>>>>
>>>>I would be thankful for a short update on the reason and plans for 
>>>>mitigation.
>>>
>>>As far as I can tell from
>>>http://engineering.meta-comm.com/boost-regression/CVS-RC_1_34_0/developer/python.html
>>>the Python failures are all due to configuration problems on the part
>>>of the tester, or bugs in BBv2 -- they just have that smell about
>>>them. 
>>
>>Could you work with the testers to solve this issue?
> 
> 
> I'll give it a shot.  what about it, people?
> 
> Doug and Volodya: http://tinyurl.com/qwz7n and
> http://tinyurl.com/nv8by seem to indicate that the Python libraries
> aren't in the regular paths.  Is that correct?  In principle that
> should be okay; it's an indication that BBv2 isn't correctly
> propagating all the library's usage requirements to the executable.
> But your runs with earlier GCC versions are all working, which seems
> to indicate some other kind of problem.  I'm without a clue here.
> 
> Martin: I get lots of "page not found!" results for your Python
> failures.  Do you have any insight into what causes that?

Sorry, not the slightest idea :(

It's the process at meta-comm that creates the tables with links to 
non-existent pages.

I checked the back_reference test for gcc-3.4.5_linux_x86_64.
The test directory contains (timestamps are in UTC+0200):

-rw-r--r-- 1 m m      33 May  3 07:44 back_reference
-rw-r--r-- 1 m m 1384408 May  3 07:44 back_reference.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 m m      33 May  3 07:44 back_reference.output
-rw-r--r-- 1 m m       7 May  3 07:44 back_reference.test
-rwxr-xr-x 1 m m 1065301 May  3 07:44 back_reference_ext.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 m m    1634 May  3 11:48 test_log.xml

back_reference.output contains:

running...
Done.

EXIT STATUS: 0

test_log.xml (1.5KB) is attached to this message.

It looks like the test actually passed. That would at least explain why 
there isn't any failure page for it. I don't understand why the result 
tables display a "fail*".

I also don't understand why this doesn't happen to the OSL2 results.

I ran only a single cycle on x86_64 today and the table indicates that
the results of that cycle get shown.

Regards,
m

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