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(core-updates) dejagnu@1.6.3 sometimes fails to build

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From: Maxime Devos <maximedevos <at> telenet.be>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: (core-updates) dejagnu <at> 1.6.3 sometimes fails to build
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:38:16 +0200

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On the build farm, dejagnu sometimes fails to build:

https://ci.guix.gnu.org/build/1229968/log/raw

> ERROR: -------------------------------------------
> ERROR: in testcase ./testsuite/runtest.libs/libs.exp
> ERROR:  send: spawn id exp6 not open
> ERROR:  tcl error code NONE
> ERROR:  tcl error info:
> send: spawn id exp6 not open
>      while executing
> "exp_send "interp delete test_case""
>      invoked from within
> "if [file exists $test] {
> 	verbose "Processing test $test" 2
>
> 	exp_send "interp create test_case\n"
> 	expect "interp create test_case*test_case*expect*>..."
>      (procedure "process_test" line 9)
>      invoked from within
> "process_test $i"
>      ("foreach" body line 2)
>      invoked from within
> "foreach i [lsort -dictionary [glob [testsuite file -source -test *.test]]] {
>      if { [runtest_file_p $runtests $i] } { process_test $i }
> }"
>      (file "./testsuite/runtest.libs/libs.exp" line 100)
>      invoked from within
> "source ./testsuite/runtest.libs/libs.exp"
>      ("uplevel" body line 1)
>      invoked from within
> "uplevel #0 source ./testsuite/runtest.libs/libs.exp"
>      invoked from within
> "catch "uplevel #0 source $test_file_name" msg"
I cannot reproduce this locally.

This "send: spawn id exp8 not open" has been noticed in LFS, at 
<https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/ticket/4871>. There it has been 
proposed to run the build out-of-source.

TODO: give '#:out-of-source? #true' a try.

Greetings,
Maxime.

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Message #8 received at 57316 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Maxime Devos <maximedevos <at> telenet.be>
To: 57316 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Maxime Devos <maximedevos <at> telenet.be>
Subject: [PATCH] gnu: dejagnu: Avoid non-deterministic test failure.
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2022 11:37:38 +0200

I cannot reproduce the test failure locally myself.

* gnu/packages/dejagnu.scm (dejagnu)[#:out-of-source?]:
Do an out-of-source build, as recommended upstream, and
add a link to the upstream bug report.
---
 gnu/packages/dejagnu.scm | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/gnu/packages/dejagnu.scm b/gnu/packages/dejagnu.scm
index f3445b3d87..579a1a7a40 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/dejagnu.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/dejagnu.scm
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 ;;; Copyright © 2016, 2017, 2022 Efraim Flashner <efraim <at> flasher.co.il>
 ;;; Copyright © 2018 Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org>
 ;;; Copyright © 2022 Marius Bakke <marius <at> gnu.org>
+;;; Copyright © 2022 Maxime Devos <maximedevos <at> telenet.be>
 ;;;
 ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
 ;;;
@@ -44,6 +45,9 @@ (define-public dejagnu
     (inputs (list bash-minimal expect))
     (arguments
      (list
+      ;; Do an out-of-source build to work-around a non-deterministic bug in Expect:
+      ;; <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-dejagnu/2021-06/msg00013.html>.
+      #:out-of-source? #true
       #:phases
       #~(modify-phases %standard-phases
           (add-after 'unpack 'patch-/bin/sh

base-commit: d08411ffd0a36a6b67a238be69d32c9f74101389
-- 
2.37.1

Message #11 received at 57316 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Maxime Devos <maximedevos <at> telenet.be>
To: 57316 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: dejagnu: Avoid non-deterministic test failure.
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2022 11:38:51 +0200

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Oops I forgot [PATCH core-updates] -- due to the many dependents, it's 
for core-updates.

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Message #16 received at 57316-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Maxime Devos <maximedevos <at> telenet.be>
Cc: 57316-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#57316: (core-updates) dejagnu <at> 1.6.3 sometimes fails to build
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2022 23:08:20 +0200

Maxime Devos <maximedevos <at> telenet.be> skribis:

> I cannot reproduce the test failure locally myself.
>
> * gnu/packages/dejagnu.scm (dejagnu)[#:out-of-source?]:
> Do an out-of-source build, as recommended upstream, and
> add a link to the upstream bug report.

Pushed in ‘core-updates’ as 0e305798454c558ab6e722cf66ba351c326a1a8d.

Thanks!

Ludo’.

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