László Böszörményi (GCS), on Thu 11 Aug 2016 01:21:00 +0200, wrote: > On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 1:07 AM, Samuel Thibault <sthiba...@debian.org> wrote: > > Debian Bug Tracking System, on Wed 10 Aug 2016 22:57:18 +0000, wrote: > >> * Make self tests non-fatal on kFreeBSD architectures (closes: #774534). > > > > Well, that doesn't actually fix the original bug report: the racy test > > will still fail, and be fatal on hurd-i386. > Sure, just realized it. :( Are you sure that the patch you proposed > will make the self-tests working on kFreeBSD and on Hurd as well?
Cristoph posted the patch, not me :) I've just tested it, it fixes the build indeed. > Otherwise I plan to ignore test failures on non-Linux architectures. Well, ignoring the whole testsuite just for one small case which is known to be racy, it looks like burying potential future bugs for a wrong reason. Christoph's patch should be burying only the test which is known to be racy. Samuel
