Am Sonntag, 30. Dezember 2012 schrieb Nikita Karetnikov:

> > + `(#:tests? #f

> Ludo told me some time ago that it's necessary to write a comment when

> you disable tests. It should explain why they were disabled.

This is a mistake, thanks for spotting it!

Actually, the tests do fail with:

make[2]: Entering directory `/tmp/nix-build-mit-krb5-1.11.drv-0/krb5-1.11/src/tests/resolve'

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=`echo -L../../lib | sed -e "s/-L//g" -e "s/ /:/g"`; export LD_LIBRARY_PATH; ./resolve

Error looking up IP address

Hostname: localhost

Host address: 127.0.0.1

FQDN: localhost

Resolve library appears to have passed the test

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=`echo -L../../lib | sed -e "s/-L//g" -e "s/ /:/g"`; export LD_LIBRARY_PATH; ./addrinfo-test -p telnet

getaddrinfo(hostname (null), service telnet,

hints { no-flags }):

error => Servname not supported for ai_socktype

make[2]: *** [check] Error 1

In my non-guix environment, I obtain

privat@debian:/tmp/krb5-1.11/src/tests/resolve$ ./addrinfo-test -p telnet

getaddrinfo(hostname (null), service telnet,

hints { no-flags }):

0x2109f40:

family = AF_INET6 proto = TCP socktype = STREAM

addr = ::1 port = 23

getnameinfo => ip6-localhost, telnet

0x2109270:

family = AF_INET proto = TCP socktype = STREAM

addr = 127.0.0.1 port = 23

getnameinfo => localhost, telnet

I suppose the problem is that the telnet ports are not defined in guix; when I manually do

./addrinfo-test -p t

I obtain the same kind of error:

getaddrinfo(hostname (null), service t,

hints { no-flags }):

error => Servname not supported for ai_socktype

Instead of disabling all tests, one might patch the Makefile.in inside src/tests/resolve to not execute the telnet related tests.

What do you think?

Andreas