unofficial mirror of bug-guile@gnu.org 
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
To: Marijn <hkBst@gentoo.org>
Cc: ludo@gnu.org, 14001@debbugs.gnu.org, dclarke@blastwave.org
Subject: bug#14001: guile-2.0.7 : 1 of 1 test failed on Debian Linux 3.2.0-4-powerpc64
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 13:44:08 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87boab8h3r.fsf@tines.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <514C678E.9090109@gentoo.org> (Marijn's message of "Fri, 22 Mar 2013 15:15:42 +0100")

Marijn <hkBst@gentoo.org> writes:

> On 22-03-13 13:48, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> 
>> Thanks for the report.  The failure is:
>> 
>> FAIL: gc.test: gc: Lexical vars are collectable
>> 
>> Unfortunately, this test exercises the garbage collector, and its 
>> failure does not always indicate a problem.
>> 
>> Since this is the only GC-related failure here, I would ignore it.
>> 
>> So I’m closing the bug.
>
> Can I just add that a failing test that doesn't indicate a problem is
> rather annoying. Can this specific test be removed or disabled if it
> can't be improved?

I agree.  If we're going to ignore these failures (which seems
reasonable), then it should at least be downgraded to a warning,
and not cause the 'make check' to fail.  IMO anyway.

     Thanks,
       Mark





  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-22 17:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-19 23:40 bug#14001: guile-2.0.7 : 1 of 1 test failed on Debian Linux 3.2.0-4-powerpc64 Dennis Clarke
2013-03-20 12:34 ` Andy Wingo
2013-03-21 15:31   ` Dennis Clarke
2013-03-22 12:48     ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-03-22 14:15       ` Marijn
2013-03-22 17:44         ` Mark H Weaver [this message]
2013-03-22 21:26           ` Ludovic Courtès

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

  List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=87boab8h3r.fsf@tines.lan \
    --to=mhw@netris.org \
    --cc=14001@debbugs.gnu.org \
    --cc=dclarke@blastwave.org \
    --cc=hkBst@gentoo.org \
    --cc=ludo@gnu.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body. 
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).