From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nicolas Sebrecht Subject: Re: 3 failures on test t9100 (svn) Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 20:52:49 +0100 Message-ID: <20100303195249.GA12919@vidovic> References: <20100302194518.GA12942@vidovic> <20100302212806.GA21413@coredump.intra.peff.net> <20100303005804.GA17120@vidovic> <20100303172302.GA10168@coredump.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Nicolas Sebrecht , git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano To: Jeff King X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Mar 03 20:53:15 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nmud5-00004y-7x for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:53:11 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752099Ab0CCTxG (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Mar 2010 14:53:06 -0500 Received: from mail-pw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.160.46]:59644 "EHLO mail-pw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751001Ab0CCTxB (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Mar 2010 14:53:01 -0500 Received: by pwj8 with SMTP id 8so1127493pwj.19 for ; Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:53:01 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:sender:date:from:to:cc :subject:message-id:references:mime-version:content-type :content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=5ikm5Os22gKrYEmeqEfvCNeXdY+b1oWTpR17e1SkUWQ=; b=anWxf+l+zm7rmMnlDav3Npvt/6alwwEVlSxEU5Zk5DfXu6Z7Gw1GNAQW/8WWhTm/jp bPncSvYPAuDeGcAA/iZL/YsRA4GcDc9NzkGkHWugkdRHEa5MzIAnecbAxXNxCPjksuPs CkTY2H78CSP1R3DemiqEyWwGQ3HhxW7GjmFhM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=DrcEXmvTngR/ulIRSvyOiTIet/G8rVj0yjsT66WXgc4uToLwDR+tzTbMU+RVSJezN2 3Elnz3t+eg/5dVk1xd8POQVsU58vMr9iJIvSfMvjVOOXbSl59aBQKlGtq1XDfIGl8V1b tKc5i2YvxfR17rKWwcAAxr2rNJQLi84CvVZtE= Received: by 10.114.11.2 with SMTP id 2mr374089wak.73.1267645980857; Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:53:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from @ (88-121-126-130.rev.libertysurf.net [88.121.126.130]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 15sm759883pxi.0.2010.03.03.11.52.53 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:52:56 -0800 (PST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100303172302.GA10168@coredump.intra.peff.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: The 03/03/10, Jeff King wrote: > On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 01:58:04AM +0100, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: > > That's weird. Can you test this in each of your shells: > > foo() { > echo "in foo, arg=$1" > } > VARIABLE='foo bar' > $VARIABLE > > It should print "in foo, arg=bar". If it doesn't, then the shell is > broken. It works, so the shell isn't that broken. :) > Also, can you confirm that you aren't setting SHELL_PATH in the Makefile > (or in your environment) when building and testing git? I run "make install" and I only tune the prefix variable. > I have this same version of bash on my Debian stable box, and it passes > the test I outlined above. So perhaps there is something more subtle > going on. Thanks Jeff for your feedbacks. > > That said, I did the svn tests because sometimes I have reproductible > > errors with 'git svn fetch' or 'git svn clone'. I'm not sure how both > > problems could be related... git-svn is a Perl script. The given message > > for this one is "error: died with signal 11" from what I remember (but > > I'm sure about the "signal 11" part). > > I doubt they are related. This test_cmp problem is a problem in the test > harness, but it may be masking actual problems by giving false > negatives. I agree. I'll correct the git-svn issue before coming back to the tests issues. -- Nicolas Sebrecht