On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 07:21:41AM +0000, Guenter Milde wrote: > On 2015-11-24, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 10:40:11PM +0000, Guenter Milde wrote: > >> On 2015-11-21, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > > >> > Below are my current (on 77979d91) test failures: > > >> Thank you for the list. However, I would rather call this a list of > >> "export failures". > > >> Only a small subset of them are "test failures": > >> the others are either > >> a) passing the test if export fails (inverted), or > >> b) passing the test in any case or not tested (nonstandard, ignored) > > > I've read this a few times and don't understand. The reason why I don't > > like the phrase "export failure" is because we don't know if an export > > failure is expected or not. > > This exactly was my critique: your list contains both "straight" and > "inverted" tests and it is not clear which of them require now our attention.
I see. Then I will wait to run the tests again until I get the green light that the test results are easy to interpret. > > Once the tests are stable, however, we should expect all tests to > > pass. > > > I understand "non standard" in primary sense to mean "requires > non-standard ressources (LaTeX packages and document classes, fonts, > ... that are not a requirement for running this test suite". > > In a wider sense, it is currently used for "not to be expected to > succeed on every site that runs this test suite". This wider > definition includes tests that have "arbitrary" result depending on > local configuration, OS, TeX distribution, package versions, or the > phase of the moon. A more accurate name for this wider definition > would be "random_result". Makes sense. As Kornel says, it would be great to put this in Development.lyx. > > By the way, Günter, am I correct that you can now run the tests > > yourself? > > No, I can't. Do you want to be able to? What is the output of the following commands? cmake . && make && ctest -N Once that works, then you should instead use a separate build directory. Scott
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