Re: Network-Manager test fail

[Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>]

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Daniel Pimentel <d4n1@member.fsf.org> writes:

> I try to change Ratpoison to Gnome-shell, but there's a follow error
> with test for NetworkManager:
>
> Testsuite summary for NetworkManager 1.0.6
> ============================================================================
> # TOTAL: 24
> # PASS:  16
> # SKIP:  0
> # XFAIL: 0
> # FAIL:  0
> # XPASS: 0
> # ERROR: 8
> ============================================================================
> See src/platform/tests/test-suite.log

Without seeing your test-suite.log, I'm not sure if these are the same
failures I'm getting, but network-manager consistently fails to build
for me as well.

Here's a patch I've used to enable building on my machine.  Maybe it
works for you too.

       Mark



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From 509fdf38ba4457524472d2b382a82aba85ad57f4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2015 00:52:44 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] PRELIMINARY gnu: network-manager: Fix build on some machines
 (e.g. Libreboot X60).

---
 gnu/packages/gnome.scm | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/gnu/packages/gnome.scm b/gnu/packages/gnome.scm
index fd0ce67..6d88f2a 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/gnome.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/gnome.scm
@@ -4193,6 +4193,13 @@ users.")
                (string-append "--with-dhclient=" dhclient)))
        #:phases
        (modify-phases %standard-phases
+         (add-after 'unpack 'fix-tests
+           (lambda _
+             (substitute* "src/platform/tests/test-common.c"
+               ;; XXX FIXME Fix tests that use linux containers.  For now, we
+               ;; disable unsharing, which causes those tests to be skipped.
+               (("!unshare_user \\(\\)") "1"))
+             #t))
          (add-before 'check 'pre-check
            (lambda _
              ;; For the missing /etc/machine-id.
-- 
2.6.3