Bug#750732: libanyevent-perl: Intermittent build failures on various architectures

[gregor herrmann]

On Fri, 05 Jan 2018 22:54:08 +0200, Niko Tyni wrote:

> > t/66_ioasync_02_signals.t or t/66_ioasync_03_child.t?
> t/66_ioasync_03_child.t, I think. See below.

Cool.
 
> > Anyway, IIRC we've seen failures in different tests over time.
> That's what I thought too but didn't find much at least
> in the buildd logs.

Ack, my search in recent logs also defeated my memory :)
 
> > On https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=libanyevent-perl&arch=armel&ver=7.140-1&stamp=1505267718&raw=0
> > Bailout called.  Further testing stopped:  No child exit detected. This is either a bug in AnyEvent or a bug in your Perl (mostly some windows distributions suffer from that): child watchers might not work properly on this platform. You can force installation of this module if you do not rely on child watchers, or you could upgrade to a working version of Perl for your platform.
> > (Does this mean that t/66_ioasync_02_signals.t failed or the
> > following t/66_ioasync_03_child.t ?)
> I think it comes from the 'Bail out! No child exit detected' part in
> t/66_ioasync_03_child.t. Presumably the test libraries are buffering
> parts of the output.

Thanks, this was my assumption as well.
 
> So I guess this all boils down to the (sort of documented) "issues
> with IO::Async", at least until we see other failures.

Agreed.
 
> > Commit pushed to alioth, feedback welcome before I upload.
> LGTM, thanks!

Thanks for checking!


Cheers,
gregor

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