Re: Thursday 18th: ‘core-updates-frozen’ sprint!

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hello,

zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi Ludo,
>
> On Mon, 22 Nov 2021 at 14:21, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>> >> … there’s probably more.
>
> Julia is annoying,  Because the test suite sometimes passes, sometimes
> not.  Well, I am not even sure it is the same part that fails.  I
> notice that "guix build julia --without-tests=julia" then "guix build
> julia" tends to works. :-)
>
> Any idea to debug this?

No idea how to debug this, but when faced with nondeterministic tests,
here's how I proceed:

1. Report them upstream.
2. Disable the problematic tests.  You may need to disable a whole test suite of
similarly faulted tests, if they all behave the same.

Thanks,

Maxim