Hi John [I'm still travel-compromised here]
On Sat, Apr 23, 2022, 13:40 John Gardner <gardnerjo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On macOS, Groff builds and installs perfectly from a fresh checkout > (currently using f55d8f41). > > However, running `make check` produced 6 failing tests: > > FAIL: src/devices/grotty/tests/basic_latin_glyphs_map_correctly.sh >> XFAIL: src/roff/groff/tests/string_case_xform_unicode_escape.sh >> XFAIL src/roff/groff/tests/string_case_xform_unicode_escape.sh (exit >> status: 1) >> XFAIL: tmac/tests/an-ext_ME-punct-hyphenates.sh >> XFAIL tmac/tests/an-ext_ME-punct-hyphenates.sh (exit status: 1) >> XFAIL: tmac/tests/an-ext_UE-breaks-before-long-URIs.sh >> XFAIL tmac/tests/an-ext_UE-breaks-before-long-URIs.sh (exit status: 1) >> XFAIL: tmac/tests/an-ext_UE-punct-hyphenates.sh >> XFAIL tmac/tests/an-ext_UE-punct-hyphenates.sh (exit status: 1) >> XFAIL: tmac/tests/e_footnotes-work-with-columns.sh >> XFAIL tmac/tests/e_footnotes-work-with-columns.sh (exit status: 1) >> > The good news here is that this is only 1 failure, not 6. XFAIL tests are "eXpected to FAIL". If one one them passes unexpectedly, that's an "XPASS' and might mean a bug was fixed by accident. > The first failure bothers me the most, as it relates to something I've > noticed Groff doing for a while now: > > FAIL: src/devices/grotty/tests/basic_latin_glyphs_map_correctly.sh >> ================================================================== >> >> checking "ascii" output device...group1 group2 group3 " \ ` ' - ^ ~ >> checking "latin1" output device...group1 group2 group3 " \ ` ' - ^ ~ >> checking "utf8" output device...group1 group2 group3 " \ ' FAILED ` >> FAILED - FAILED ^ FAILED ~ FAILED >> FAIL src/devices/grotty/tests/basic_latin_glyphs_map_correctly.sh (exit >> status: 1) > > > I've saved the build log and test-suite.log. Should I open a ticket on > Savannah? > Shooting in the dark here, I'm wondering if the script is failing to detect the unavailability of a UTF-8 character encoding and is running a doomed test. Bjarni, who often or exclusively uses ISO 8859-15, has more than once exposed robustness oversights in my test scripts in this regard. I hope to have my laptop going again in a day or so; I can then resume development work. > > in the event I should be eaten by a grue and don't return. :P >> > > Carry some illuminate with you, and for God's sake, keep the damn light on. > So far, no threatening little knife-wielding dwarves have entered the room. Regards, Branden (or so he _claimed_, lacking a GPG signature)
