build failures on mipsel

[Tomi Ollila]

On Mon, Jun 04 2018, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:

> hey folks--
>
> the notmuch 0.27 release candidates are failing to build on the debian
> mipsel build daemons:
>
> https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=notmuch&arch=mipsel&ver=0.27%7Erc0-1&stamp=1527466396&raw=0
> https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=notmuch&arch=mipsel&ver=0.27%7Erc1-1&stamp=1528017305&raw=0
>
> They both fail the test suite here:
>
>
> T357-index-decryption: Testing indexing decrypted mail
>  FAIL   stash decryption during show
> 	--- T357-index-decryption.9.expected	2018-06-03 09:13:02.472009180 +0000
> 	+++ T357-index-decryption.9.output	2018-06-03 09:13:02.472009180 +0000
> 	@@ -1 +1 @@
> 	-This is a test encrypted message with a wumpus.
> 	+
>  FAIL   search should now find the contents
> 	--- T357-index-decryption.10.expected	2018-06-03 09:13:02.528010019 +0000
> 	+++ T357-index-decryption.10.output	2018-06-03 09:13:02.528010019 +0000
> 	@@ -1 +1 @@
> 	-thread:0000000000000003   2000-01-01 [1/1] Notmuch Test Suite; test encrypted message for cleartext index 002 (encrypted inbox unread)
> 	+
>
>
> I've tried to replicate the problem over on eller.debian.org (the mipsel
> porterbox) but when i build 0.27~rc1 over there in an schroot, i don't
> even get to T357 because the emacs_fcc_message() function hangs in this
> loop (is this known to not work in an schroot or under similar
> situations?):
>
> +(test/test-lib.sh:988): test_emacs(): sleep 1
> +(test/test-lib.sh:987): test_emacs(): test_emacs '()'
> +(test/test-lib.sh:960): test_emacs(): missing_dependencies=
> +(test/test-lib.sh:961): test_emacs(): test_require_external_prereq dtach
> +(test/test-lib.sh:674): test_require_external_prereq(): binary=dtach
> +(test/test-lib.sh:675): test_require_external_prereq(): [[ '' == t ]]
> +(test/test-lib.sh:679): test_require_external_prereq(): true
> +(test/test-lib.sh:962): test_emacs(): test_require_external_prereq emacs
> +(test/test-lib.sh:674): test_require_external_prereq(): binary=emacs
> +(test/test-lib.sh:675): test_require_external_prereq(): [[ '' == t ]]
> +(test/test-lib.sh:679): test_require_external_prereq(): true
> +(test/test-lib.sh:963): test_emacs(): test_require_external_prereq emacsclient
> +(test/test-lib.sh:674): test_require_external_prereq(): binary=emacsclient
> +(test/test-lib.sh:675): test_require_external_prereq(): [[ '' == t ]]
> +(test/test-lib.sh:679): test_require_external_prereq(): true
> +(test/test-lib.sh:964): test_emacs(): test -z ''
> +(test/test-lib.sh:966): test_emacs(): '[' -z notmuch-test-suite-1593 ']'
> +(test/test-lib.sh:997): test_emacs(): rm -f OUTPUT
> +(test/test-lib.sh:998): test_emacs(): touch OUTPUT
> +(test/test-lib.sh:1000): test_emacs(): emacsclient --socket-name=notmuch-test-suite-1593 --eval '(notmuch-test-progn ())'
>
> can anyone suggest a good next debugging step?

emacs did not start for some reason.

You could try changing the line

sh -c "stty rows 24 cols 80; exec '$TMP_DIRECTORY/run_emacs' \

to

script -c "stty rows 24 cols 80; exec '$TMP_DIRECTORY/run_emacs' \

in test-lib.sh and then see what you get in 'typescriptä file

>
>     --dkg


Tomi