From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mark H Weaver Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.bugs 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 Message-ID: <87boab8h3r.fsf@tines.lan> References: <877gl21c8x.fsf@pobox.com> <8738vnha6v.fsf@gnu.org> <514C678E.9090109@gentoo.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1363974317 15667 80.91.229.3 (22 Mar 2013 17:45:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 17:45:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ludo@gnu.org, 14001@debbugs.gnu.org, dclarke@blastwave.org To: Marijn Original-X-From: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 22 18:45:40 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-bugs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UJ628-00037w-1K for guile-bugs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Mar 2013 18:45:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34215 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UJ61k-0007R3-DE for guile-bugs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Mar 2013 13:45:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:44529) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UJ61a-0007BJ-OD for bug-guile@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Mar 2013 13:45:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UJ61Z-0002mJ-Gx for bug-guile@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Mar 2013 13:45:06 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:37064) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UJ61Z-0002m6-EG for bug-guile@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Mar 2013 13:45:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UJ63R-0007NZ-U7 for bug-guile@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Mar 2013 13:47:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Mark H Weaver Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-guile@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 17:47:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 14001 X-GNU-PR-Package: guile X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 14001-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B14001.136397438628315 (code B ref 14001); Fri, 22 Mar 2013 17:47:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 14001) by debbugs.gnu.org; 22 Mar 2013 17:46:26 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41173 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UJ62r-0007Md-PH for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 22 Mar 2013 13:46:26 -0400 Original-Received: from world.peace.net ([96.39.62.75]:43460) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UJ62o-0007MS-Dt for 14001@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 22 Mar 2013 13:46:23 -0400 Original-Received: from 209-6-91-212.c3-0.smr-ubr1.sbo-smr.ma.cable.rcn.com ([209.6.91.212] helo=tines.lan) by world.peace.net with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UJ60o-00007J-2t; Fri, 22 Mar 2013 13:44:18 -0400 In-Reply-To: <514C678E.9090109@gentoo.org> (Marijn's message of "Fri, 22 Mar 2013 15:15:42 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-guile@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Extension Language" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.bugs:6992 Archived-At: Marijn writes: > On 22-03-13 13:48, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote: >>=20 >> Thanks for the report. The failure is: >>=20 >> FAIL: gc.test: gc: Lexical vars are collectable >>=20 >> Unfortunately, this test exercises the garbage collector, and its=20 >> failure does not always indicate a problem. >>=20 >> Since this is the only GC-related failure here, I would ignore it. >>=20 >> So I=E2=80=99m 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