Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] maint: update to latest gnulib

[Martin Kletzander]

On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 02:12:00PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> [adding bug-gnulib]
> 
> On 10/29/2013 11:15 AM, Martin Kletzander wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 03:50:20PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> >> Since we haven't quite frozen yet, it's time to pick up some
> >> fixes.  I know at least cygwin benefits from this update.
> >>
> >> * .gnulib: Update to latest, in part for cygwin compilation.
> >>
> > 
> > Even though that's not your fault, this might interest you:
> > 
> > address@hidden:/home/jenkins/workspace/libvirt/platform/freebsd-9/gnulib/tests
> > # ./test-poll
> > Unconnected socket test... passed
> > Connected sockets test... failed (expecting POLLHUP after shutdown)
> > General socket test with fork... failed (expecting POLLHUP after shutdown)
> > Pipe test... passed
> 
> Has that test been failing prior to my submodule update for libvirt?
> This is likely a latent bug in gnulib that has been manifesting itself
> on FreeBSD for a much longer time period than just the month's worth of
> patches I pulled in by updating; but you are right that it would be nice
> to fix it upstream.
> 

I thought it did fail earlier, but now I see it didn't.  There was an
IP addresses misconfiguration, but trying that now, I can only find a
commit on which there were 2 errors instead of 3, but none which would
successfully survive 'make check'.

So sorry for the noise I made about that.

Martin

> > 
> > And two other tests fail as well.  I, however, couldn't find a time to
> > look at that, so I'm just sending this to you in case you'd like to go
> > deeper with it.
> > 
> > Martin
> > 
> 
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> Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
> Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
>

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