Re: [PATCH] .gitlab-ci.d/windows.yml: Disable the qtests in the MSYS2 job

[Thomas Huth]

On 16/08/2024 18.21, Alex Bennée wrote:
> Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> writes:
>
> > The qtests are broken since a while in the MSYS2 job in the gitlab-CI,
> > likely due to some changes in the MSYS2 environment. So far nobody has
> > neither a clue what's going wrong here, nor an idea how to fix this
> > (in fact most QEMU developers even don't have a Windows environment
> > available for properly analyzing this problem), so let's disable the
> > qtests here again to get at least the test coverage for the compilation
> > and unit tests back to the CI.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
> > ---
> >   .gitlab-ci.d/windows.yml | 2 ++
> >   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.d/windows.yml b/.gitlab-ci.d/windows.yml
> > index a83f23a786..9f3112f010 100644
> > --- a/.gitlab-ci.d/windows.yml
> > +++ b/.gitlab-ci.d/windows.yml
> > @@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ msys2-64bit:
> >       # for this job, because otherwise the build could not complete within
> >       # the project timeout.
> >       CONFIGURE_ARGS:  --target-list=sparc-softmmu --without-default-devices 
> > -Ddebug=false -Doptimization=0
> > +    # The qtests are broken in the msys2 job on gitlab, so disable them:
> > +    TEST_ARGS: --no-suite qtest
>
> Should we create an issue in the tracker to make it more visible for
> potential windows hackers?

The only two I am aware of are already on CC: ... so not sure whether it's 
worth the effort...?

 Thomas