Re: Oddities in ECL tests on Linux

Harmless in the sense that ECL doesn't crash or throw me in the
interactive debugger. Besides, the test failures seem to be easily
fixed. The test-require.script test fails because it tries to require
the :rt module which is deprecated on the develop branch and no longer
build by default. A simple fix is to use the :sockets module instead:

diff --git a/test/test-require.script b/test/test-require.script
index e5f70857..1ef84e8c 100644
--- a/test/test-require.script
+++ b/test/test-require.script
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@
    #+allegro :sax
    #+clisp (first (remove "asdf" *dynmod-list* :test 'equal))
    #+(or clozure cmucl) :defsystem
-   #+ecl :rt ;; loads faster than :ecl-quicklisp
+   #+ecl :sockets
    #+lispworks "comm"
    #+mkcl :walker
    #+sbcl :sb-md5

The test-program.script test seems to fail to include uiop because of an
error in the linkable-system function. Tracing it shows that the
function returns nil for the uiop system object,
1> (ASDF/BUNDLE::LINKABLE-SYSTEM #<system "uiop">)
<1 (ASDF/BUNDLE::LINKABLE-SYSTEM NIL)
which seems to be caused by a missing call to coerce-name:

diff --git a/bundle.lisp b/bundle.lisp
index 2ff56f93..42034c9f 100644
--- a/bundle.lisp
+++ b/bundle.lisp
@@ -529,7 +529,7 @@ which is probably not what you want; you probably
need to tweak your output tran
         ;; If an ASDF upgrade is available from source, but not a UIOP
upgrade to that,
         ;; then use the asdf/driver system instead of
         ;; the UIOP that was disabled by check-not-old-asdf-system.
-        (if-let (s (and (equal x "uiop") (output-files 'lib-op "asdf")
(find-system "asdf/driver")))
+        (if-let (s (and (equal (coerce-name x) "uiop") (output-files
'lib-op "asdf") (find-system "asdf/driver")))
           (and (output-files 'lib-op s) s))
         ;; If there was no source upgrade, look for modules provided by
the implementation.
         (if-let (p (system-module-pathname (coerce-name x)))


Am 29.08.2018 um 01:22 schrieb Faré:
>> I can't reproduce this, for me the tests run fine without being thrown
>> in the debugger. I only get two harmlessly looking test failures
>> (test-program.script and test-require.script).
>>
> No test failure is harmless. The test-program.script failure is what
> Robert saw, that I can reproduce. I didn't reproduce a failure with
> test-require. I had more problems with ECL from the develop branch,
> but maybe it was a bad idea to use the develop branch.
> 
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