On 2015-11-24, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 07:21:41AM +0000, Guenter Milde wrote:


>> >> > Below are my current (on 77979d91) test failures:
...
>> 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.

Don't wait. I can now interpret the results and having such "suboptimal"
output helps me to think about possible improvement.


...

>> 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.

I am working on a categorization and naming -- needs some time and discussion.

>> > 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

After installing cmake, I get:

CMake Error: The source directory "/tmp" does not appear to contain 
CMakeLists.txt.
Specify --help for usage, or press the help button on the CMake GUI.


Günter

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