Re: [PATCHES] Add totem

[Ludovic Courtès]

Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> skribis:

> address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>>> From ba786fa3d1d7896336dca3b364bb630142c30fa1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>>> From: Mark H Weaver <address@hidden>
>>> Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2015 21:09:54 -0400
>>> Subject: [PATCH 2/3] gnu: Add grilo-plugins.
>>>
>>> * gnu/packages/gnome.scm (grilo-plugins): New variable.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>> +     `(#:make-flags (list (string-append "GRL_PLUGINS_DIR="
>>> +                                         %output
>>> +                                         "/lib/grilo-"
>>> +                                         ,(version-major+minor version)))
>>> +       ;; XXX FIXME: Investigate test failure:
>>> +       ;;   TEST: test_apple_trailers... (pid=8718)
>>> +       ;;     /apple-trailers/browse/count:
>>> +       ;;   ERROR:test_apple_trailers.c:88:test_browse_count: assertion 
>>> failed: (source)
>>> +       ;;   FAIL
>>> +       #:tests? #f))
>>
>> Would it be OK to skip just this for now?  If that’s too much, we can
>> leave it for later.
>
> "make check" aborts after this failure, which is the first test.  I
> tried "make -k check" and found that _all_ tests fail with the same
> assertion failure when run in the build container.
>
> However, if I run "make -k check" on the failed build directory in
> /tmp/nix-build-* from outside of the build container, all but one of the
> tests succeeds.  This when using the precise environment variable
> settings from the build and no others.  Using strace, I found that it
> was accessing the system dbus, so I guess that's the problem.

Ah OK.  It’s really a bug in their test framework IMO.  It’s probably OK
to punt on this one and document these findings in the comment.

Thanks,
Ludo’.