Re: GBrowse build errors on a few archs

[Steffen Möller <steffen_moeller@gmx.de>]

On 08/29/2011 09:05 AM, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi Olivier,
>
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 08:39:41AM +0200, Olivier Sallou wrote:
>> Hi, There are some gbrowse build (test) failures on a few archs, on
>> 05-defferedrendering.t . This group of test seem to randomly fail on a
>> few tests (armel last time, an other one this time, and not always on
>> same tests). I may be due to timeouts in the test (longer operations due
>> to ram/cpu on build server), but I do not know how to debug this.
>> Indeed, on my computer it works (and as it is quite random...). I'd like
>> to "play" with the test code to fix it, but I do not know how to do
>> this, to test it on debian servers (where it fails)... I can't push a
>> new version for each test I do, until it works.... An other way would be
>> to skip the tests, but this is not really a solution... Thanks for
>> suggestion Olivier 
> Sounds very similar to the case reported by Charles recently (was it
> embos or bio-perl?) where it was decided to simply drop the tests in
> question on those architectures where they are known to fail.
Do any of those test require internet access for the download of
some data? That may or may not be available, I could assume,
for the buildds and give that impression of randomness.

Best,

Steffe