[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#865552: libbpp-phyl FTBFS with test failures

[Julien Yann Dutheil]

Dear Andreas,

Please find attached a patch that sets the timeout to 10000s (default was
1500). Hope this improves things...

Best,

Julien.

On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 9:43 PM, Andreas Tille <tille at debian.org> wrote:

> Hi Julien,
>
> On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 09:02:30PM +0200, Julien Yann Dutheil wrote:
> > This is most strange indeed. The errors are all "time out" errors on unit
> > tests which take the longest time (several min or so). Looks like some
> > issues with the default value for the timeout setting in CTest... I would
> > suggest to simply skip the unit tests by running "cmake
> > -DBUILD_TESTING=FALSE ." .  Does this solve the problem?
>
> Hmmm, this would most probably lead to successfully built packages but I
> would prefer spending some additional thoughts on this.  It would
> explain the issue why the package has built before but does not any more
> without any visible change on "weak" architectures.  I could imagine
> that after stretch release the run on the build servers increased and
> that possibly parallel builds are happening which lead to performance
> loss for single packages.
>
> Do you see any chance to increase the timeout settings by one order of
> magnitude to test this hypothesis?
>
> Kind regards
>
>       Andreas.
>
> --
> http://fam-tille.de
>



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commit 1d8fb92514f7cacfcf158de80b99cc13483437e7
Author: Julien Y. Dutheil <dutheil at evolbio.mpg.de>
Date:   Sat Jun 24 23:41:39 2017 +0200

    Added longer timeout for tests.

diff --git a/test/CMakeLists.txt b/test/CMakeLists.txt
index 206cef39..5e8cf244 100644
--- a/test/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/test/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -21,4 +21,6 @@ foreach (test_cpp_file ${test_cpp_files})
     WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}
     COMMAND ${test_name}
     )
+  set_tests_properties (${test_name} PROPERTIES TIMEOUT 10000)
 endforeach (test_cpp_file)
+