Bug#760841: pspp: [kfreebsd] random testsuite failures

[Steven Chamberlain <steven@pyro.eu.org>]

Package: pspp
Version: 0.8.3-4
Severity: important
User: debian-bsd@lists.debian.org
Usertags: kfreebsd
X-Debbugs-CC: pspp-dev@gnu.org, debian-bsd@lists.debian.org

Hi,

https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=pspp&arch=kfreebsd-amd64&ver=0.8.3-4&stamp=1408700427

On 08/09/14 10:03, Friedrich Beckmann wrote:
> The package does not build because one test (read UTF-16 as Auto) in the
> regression fails. The strange thing is
> that the test already passed in a previous build attempt for package
> 0.8.3-2 but there is no difference in the source code. 
> Even stranger is that the package failed on kfreebsd-i386 for version
> 0.8.3-1.3 with exactly the same failing test. 

I'm opening a bug to track this issue because, even though it was given
back and built successfully, it may recur in future, and it suggests a
bug somewhere that we'd like to fix.

> Ben Pfaff could not reproduce the problem on machine
> fischer: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/pspp-dev/2014-08/msg00025.html
> and so we left it and it build for 0.8.3-2 with no source code change on
> kfreebsd-i386.

I couldn't reproduce it yet either.  But I think we have a race
condition somewhere, perhaps in pspp, another library, the test, or even
the test framework.

I'll note that on the kfreebsd buildds the testsuite runs with -j2

Thanks,
Regards,
-- 
Steven Chamberlain
steven@pyro.eu.org