[DRE-maint] Bug#676204: ruby-mkrf: FTBFS: tests failed

[Lucas Nussbaum]

Source: ruby-mkrf
Version: 0.2.3+dfsg-1
Severity: serious
Tags: wheezy sid
User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
Usertags: qa-ftbfs-20120605 qa-ftbfs
Justification: FTBFS on amd64

Hi,

During a rebuild of all packages in sid, your package failed to build on
amd64.

Relevant part:
> make[1]: Entering directory `/«BUILDDIR»/ruby-mkrf-0.2.3+dfsg'
> touch test/fixtures/some_binary
> chmod +x test/fixtures/some_binary
> dh_auto_install
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/psych_tree.rb:31: warning: method redefined; discarding old visit_String
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/psych_tree.rb:4: warning: previous definition of visit_String was here
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/psych_tree.rb:39: warning: method redefined; discarding old register
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/psych_tree.rb:12: warning: previous definition of register was here
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/psych_tree.rb:43: warning: method redefined; discarding old format_time
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/psych_tree.rb:16: warning: previous definition of format_time was here
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/syck_hack.rb:115: warning: method redefined; discarding old to_s
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/syck_hack.rb:44: warning: previous definition of to_s was here
>   Entering dh_ruby --install
> install -d /«BUILDDIR»/ruby-mkrf-0.2.3+dfsg/debian/ruby-mkrf/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby
> install -D -m644 lib/mkrf.rb /«BUILDDIR»/ruby-mkrf-0.2.3+dfsg/debian/ruby-mkrf/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/mkrf.rb
> install -D -m644 lib/mkrf/generator.rb /«BUILDDIR»/ruby-mkrf-0.2.3+dfsg/debian/ruby-mkrf/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/mkrf/generator.rb
> install -D -m644 lib/mkrf/rakehelper.rb /«BUILDDIR»/ruby-mkrf-0.2.3+dfsg/debian/ruby-mkrf/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/mkrf/rakehelper.rb
> install -D -m644 lib/mkrf/availability.rb /«BUILDDIR»/ruby-mkrf-0.2.3+dfsg/debian/ruby-mkrf/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/mkrf/availability.rb
> /usr/bin/ruby1.8 -I/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/gem2deb/test_runner.rb
> Loaded suite debian/ruby-tests
> Started
> ...............................FF.
> Finished in 3.914195 seconds.
> 
>   1) Failure:
> test_that_libxml_compiles(TestSampleProjects)
>     [./test/unit/../abstract_unit.rb:42:in `assert_creates_file'
>      ./test/integration/test_sample_projects.rb:20:in `test_that_libxml_compiles']:
> ./test/integration/../sample_files/libxml-ruby-0.3.8/ext/xml/libxml_so.so wasn't created!.
> <false> is not true.
> 
>   2) Failure:
> test_that_syck_compiles(TestSampleProjects)
>     [./test/unit/../abstract_unit.rb:42:in `assert_creates_file'
>      ./test/integration/test_sample_projects.rb:20:in `test_that_syck_compiles']:
> ./test/integration/../sample_files/syck-0.55/ext/ruby/ext/syck/syck.so wasn't created!.
> <false> is not true.
> 
> 34 tests, 64 assertions, 2 failures, 0 errors
> ERROR: Test "ruby1.8" failed. Exiting.
> dh_auto_install: dh_ruby --install /«BUILDDIR»/ruby-mkrf-0.2.3+dfsg/debian/ruby-mkrf returned exit code 1
> make[1]: *** [override_dh_auto_install] Error 1

The full build log is available from:
   http://people.debian.org/~lucas/logs/2012/06/05/ruby-mkrf_0.2.3+dfsg-1_unstable.log

A list of current common problems and possible solutions is available at 
http://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/FTBFS . You're welcome to contribute!

About the archive rebuild: The rebuild was done on EC2 VM instances from
Amazon Web Services, using a clean, minimal and up-to-date chroot. Every
failed build was retried once to eliminate random failures.