(core-updates) dejagnu@1.6.3 sometimes fails to build

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  • Ludovic Courtès
  • Maxime Devos
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Maxime Devos wrote on 21 Aug 2022 12:38
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72288a5b-616e-435b-fd6a-b9f0745e4fbf@telenet.be
On the build farm, dejagnu sometimes fails to build:
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> ERROR: -------------------------------------------
> ERROR: in testcase ./testsuite/runtest.libs/libs.exp
> ERROR: send: spawn id exp6 not open
> ERROR: tcl error code NONE
> ERROR: tcl error info:
> send: spawn id exp6 not open
> while executing
> "exp_send "interp delete test_case""
> invoked from within
> "if [file exists $test] {
> verbose "Processing test $test" 2
>
> exp_send "interp create test_case\n"
> expect "interp create test_case*test_case*expect*>..."
> (procedure "process_test" line 9)
> invoked from within
> "process_test $i"
> ("foreach" body line 2)
> invoked from within
> "foreach i [lsort -dictionary [glob [testsuite file -source -test *.test]]] {
> if { [runtest_file_p $runtests $i] } { process_test $i }
> }"
> (file "./testsuite/runtest.libs/libs.exp" line 100)
> invoked from within
> "source ./testsuite/runtest.libs/libs.exp"
> ("uplevel" body line 1)
> invoked from within
> "uplevel #0 source ./testsuite/runtest.libs/libs.exp"
> invoked from within
> "catch "uplevel #0 source $test_file_name" msg"
I cannot reproduce this locally.
This "send: spawn id exp8 not open" has been noticed in LFS, at
proposed to run the build out-of-source.
TODO: give '#:out-of-source? #true' a try.
Greetings,
Maxime.
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Maxime Devos wrote on 22 Aug 2022 11:37
[PATCH] gnu: dejagnu: Avoid non-deterministic test failure.
(address . 57316@debbugs.gnu.org)(name . Maxime Devos)(address . maximedevos@telenet.be)
20220822093738.23513-1-maximedevos@telenet.be
I cannot reproduce the test failure locally myself.

* gnu/packages/dejagnu.scm (dejagnu)[#:out-of-source?]:
Do an out-of-source build, as recommended upstream, and
add a link to the upstream bug report.
---
gnu/packages/dejagnu.scm | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

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diff --git a/gnu/packages/dejagnu.scm b/gnu/packages/dejagnu.scm
index f3445b3d87..579a1a7a40 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/dejagnu.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/dejagnu.scm
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
;;; Copyright © 2016, 2017, 2022 Efraim Flashner <efraim@flasher.co.il>
;;; Copyright © 2018 Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
;;; Copyright © 2022 Marius Bakke <marius@gnu.org>
+;;; Copyright © 2022 Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be>
;;;
;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
;;;
@@ -44,6 +45,9 @@ (define-public dejagnu
(inputs (list bash-minimal expect))
(arguments
(list
+ ;; Do an out-of-source build to work-around a non-deterministic bug in Expect:
+ ;; <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-dejagnu/2021-06/msg00013.html>.
+ #:out-of-source? #true
#:phases
#~(modify-phases %standard-phases
(add-after 'unpack 'patch-/bin/sh

base-commit: d08411ffd0a36a6b67a238be69d32c9f74101389
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2.37.1
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Ludovic Courtès wrote on 6 Sep 2022 23:08
Re: bug#57316: (core-updates) dejagnu@1.6.3 sometimes fails to build
(name . Maxime Devos)(address . maximedevos@telenet.be)(address . 57316-done@debbugs.gnu.org)
871qsotdmj.fsf_-_@gnu.org
Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be> skribis:

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> I cannot reproduce the test failure locally myself.
>
> * gnu/packages/dejagnu.scm (dejagnu)[#:out-of-source?]:
> Do an out-of-source build, as recommended upstream, and
> add a link to the upstream bug report.

Pushed in ‘core-updates’ as 0e305798454c558ab6e722cf66ba351c326a1a8d.

Thanks!

Ludo’.
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