Re: GNU Guix 1.3.0rc2 available for testing!

[Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>]

Hello Chris,

Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi Maxim,
>
> Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Sorry for the delayed answer.
>
> No worries!  I've waited even longer in replying to you now, so we're
> even.  :-)
>
>> The go importer depends on a recent version of guile-lib (0.2.7), which
>> added a new #:strict argument to the HTML parser.  We should probably
>> skip the test depending on the already available HAVE_GUILE_LIB Automake
>> conditional, like so:
>>
>> modified   Makefile.am
>> @@ -457,7 +457,6 @@ SCM_TESTS =					\
>>    tests/git-authenticate.scm			\
>>    tests/glob.scm				\
>>    tests/gnu-maintenance.scm			\
>> -  tests/go.scm					\
>>    tests/grafts.scm				\
>>    tests/graph.scm				\
>>    tests/gremlin.scm				\
>> @@ -505,6 +504,10 @@ SCM_TESTS =					\
>>    tests/uuid.scm				\
>>    tests/workers.scm
>>  
>> +if HAVE_GUILE_LIB
>> +SCM_TESTS += tests/go.scm
>> +endif
>> +
>>  if BUILD_DAEMON_OFFLOAD
>>  SCM_TESTS  += tests/offload.scm
>>  else
>>
>> Could you give the above a try?  Feel free to commit it if it works as
>> expected.
>
> I tested this, and it works.  Thank you!  I can now build the release
> (with this change) and run the tests (make check) successfully;
> tests/go.scm is just omitted from the tests to run.
>
> By chance, I noticed the following lines below what you added:
>
> if HAVE_GUILE_LIB
> SCM_TESTS += tests/go.scm
> endif
>
> if BUILD_DAEMON_OFFLOAD
> SCM_TESTS  += tests/offload.scm
> else
> EXTRA_DIST += tests/offload.scm
> endif
>
>
> I guess that if we omit tests/go.scm from SCM_TESTS, it not only means
> that the test won't be run, but it also means the test won't get
> included in the tarball distribution ("make dist").  Is that right?  It
> seems undesirable to omit this test from the distribution just because
> the machine on which the distribution was built might have lacked the
> library necessary to run the test.  Someone who builds Guix from the
> distribution might actually have that library installed and thus be able
> to run the test.  To ensure that this test always gets included in the
> distribution, perhaps we should also add it to EXTRA_DIST like so:
>
> diff -u a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
> --- a/Makefile.am       2021-05-11 11:09:31.000000000 -0700
> +++ b/Makefile.am       2021-06-02 12:55:06.134793001 -0700
> @@ -457,7 +457,6 @@
>    tests/git-authenticate.scm                   \
>    tests/glob.scm                               \
>    tests/gnu-maintenance.scm                    \
> -  tests/go.scm                                 \
>    tests/grafts.scm                             \
>    tests/graph.scm                              \
>    tests/gremlin.scm                            \
> @@ -505,6 +504,12 @@
>    tests/uuid.scm                               \
>    tests/workers.scm
>  
> +if HAVE_GUILE_LIB
> +SCM_TESTS += tests/go.scm
> +else
> +EXTRA_DIST += tests/go.scm
> +endif
> +
>  if BUILD_DAEMON_OFFLOAD
>  SCM_TESTS  += tests/offload.scm
>  else
>
> What do you think?

Well observed!  Makes sense to me.  Feel free to push such change if you
haven't already.

Thank you!

Maxim