On 6 September 2021 at 09:39, Simon McVittie wrote: | On Sun, 05 Sep 2021 at 20:04:55 -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | > Please explain what a smoke-test failure is. | | Sorry, I thought this was a common term. | | A smoke-test for hardware: plug in the device and see whether smoke | comes out. If yes, reject it. If not, it *might* work as intended (but | further testing would be needed to know that). | | By analogy, a smoke-test for software: try to do something superficial | with it, like loading it but not running any real tests. If that fails, | reject it (as the R build system does here). If not, it might work | (but further testing would be needed to know that).
Yes, that is exactly what is done (and for the very reason), we just had not used _that term_ over here for it :-/ though I had seen it used. It is a fair discriminator esp with shared library dependencies :) | > A segfault here usually means /some/ API along | > the way changed :-/ and is rare as a one-arch-only occurrence. | | This happened on s390x buildds consistently across two builds of the | +b2 binNMU, but I can't reproduce it on the s390x porterbox zelenka | in either a sid or bullseye chroot, which is odd. I've given back the | official buildd build to see whether it was something transient. Ok. | s390 porters: are there any important differences between the s390x | porterbox and the s390x buildds, like a different CPU or something? | | On the porterbox, I get the same output as on the non-s390x buildds: | rgtk can't actually initialize because there's no X11 display, but | doesn't crash either. This is a fairly stable (upstream) package, it used to be considered big-ish too as it has all the gtk2 bindings (generated as I recall). Let me know if I can help. I do not think the package does anything special on the platform. Dirk | > make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/smcv/rgtk2-2.20.36/src' | > installing to /home/smcv/rgtk2-2.20.36/debian/r-cran-rgtk2/usr/lib/R/site-library/00LOCK-rgtk2-2.20.36/00new/RGtk2/libs | > ** R | > ** demo | > ** inst | > ** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading | > ** help | > *** installing help indices | > ** building package indices | > ** testing if installed package can be loaded from temporary location | > R session is headless; GTK+ not initialized. | > ** checking absolute paths in shared objects and dynamic libraries | > ** testing if installed package can be loaded from final location | > R session is headless; GTK+ not initialized. | > ** testing if installed package keeps a record of temporary installation path | > * DONE (RGtk2) | | smcv -- https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org
