[Mono-dev] Test suite failures (Mono 2.10.2)

[Rodrigo Kumpera]

It's hard to do such a thing when you factor in that mono supports many
dozens of targets and configurations and
that sometimes those breaks were caused my maintainers - I have my share of
faults.

Thing is, right now the team at Xamarin has tons of stuff on its hand so
getting the build infrastructure back on
track, which helps us a lot, won't happen without community help.

A good first step would be to get CI back working at least on linux. S, if
someone wants to rebuild the continuous
integration farm over linode (or other VPS) please speak up.


On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Steve Bjorg <steveb at mindtouch.com> wrote:

> Here's a thought: only accept code changes that pass all tests?  Just
> saying...
>
> - Steve
>
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> Steve G. Bjorg
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> On Jun 23, 2011, at 11:43 AM, Zoltan Varga wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>   Our test suite contains 1000s of tests, written by dozens of people, its
> a bit hard to keep them all passing.
>
>                     Zoltan
>
> On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 7:44 PM, Harry Wilkinson <hwilkinson at mdsol.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm encountering some test failures with the Mono 2.10.2 source tarball
>> distributed at http://ftp.novell.com/pub/mono/sources/mono/
>>
>> Basically I'm trying to package it for deployment on Ubuntu 10.04.2
>> servers in a cloud configuration.  So far I've been building from source and
>> encountered no significant problems other than the long build time.  I'd
>> like to be able to reduce that by building it once and deploying a compiled
>> package.  So I'm using dpkg-buildpackage.
>>
>> However, now that I'm packaging rather than just building and installing,
>> it seems that the test suite is run and there are some test failures.  The
>> first and most obvious one is that it appears that a file is missing from
>> the source tarball:
>>
>>
>> mcs/class/corlib/Test/System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary/VersionTolerantSerialization/VersionTolerantSerializationTestLib/6.0/Address.cs
>>
>> The file is there in the Git repo under the 2.10.2 tag, but it's not in
>> the tarball.  Unfortunately it's referenced in the associated Makefile
>> (mcs/class/corlib/Makefile).  The same applies to 2.10.1, so I'm guessing
>> the file is omitted from whatever process builds the tarballs.
>>
>> I switched to compiling from the source taken from Git, checkout out the
>> 2.10.2 tag, and I get a different error (which is also what I get with the
>> tarball version if I just hack the makefile):
>>
>> make[8]: Entering directory
>> `/home/hwilkinson/mono/mcs/class/System.Web.DynamicData'
>> MCS     [net_2_0] System.Web.DynamicData_test_net_2_0.dll
>> Test/../../System.Web/Test/mainsoft/NunitWeb/NunitWeb/MyTemplateControls.cs(43,19):
>> error CS0507:
>> `MyTemplateControls.TestTemplateControl.CreateChildControls()': cannot
>> change access modifiers when overriding `protected' inherited member
>> `System.Web.UI.Control.CreateChildControls()'
>> /home/hwilkinson/mono/mcs/class/lib/net_2_0/System.Web.dll (Location of
>> the symbol related to previous error)
>> Compilation failed: 1 error(s), 0 warnings
>> make[8]: *** [System.Web.DynamicData_test_net_2_0.dll] Error 1
>>
>> It looks like this could well be an incorrect preprocessor definition
>> 'SYSTEM_WEB_EXTENSIONS' (not sure whether it should be defined or not)
>> in mcs/class/System.Web/Test/mainsoft/NunitWeb/NunitWeb/MyTemplateControls.cs.
>>
>> Is this expected?  I had sort of assumed that a released version would
>> have a passing test suite.  Am I doing something wrong?
>>
>> Any advice (well, almost) would be gratefully received.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Harry Wilkinson
>>
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