make distrib vs install (was: Re: [Chandler-dev] Functional Test failure on Leopard)

[D John Anderson]

On Oct 30, 2007, at 1:16 PM, Heikki Toivonen wrote:

> bear wrote:
>> D John Anderson wrote:
>>> Unfortunately, the new recorded scripts tests are catching bugs in
>>> rt.py and the tinderboxes themselves (random false positives and  
>>> false
>>> negatives) that look unrelated to recorded scripts, so I'm blocked
>>> until I can get some help fixing them.
>>
>> That is yet unproven - rt.py and tinderbox are running the tests the
>> exact same way in both trunk and the recorded_scripts branch and  
>> we are
>> giving you help in finding out what is wrong in so far as we can  
>> with rt
>> and tinderbox.
>>
>> I'll say it again - rt.py just reports what the return code from
>> Chandler is and dumps the log files.  Tinderbox does exactly the same
>> from rt.py.
>
> As far as I can tell, rt and Tinderbox are working correctly. However,
> bear pointed out that Tinderbox is doing |make distrib| while most
> developers are doing |make install|. It was quite a surprise to see  
> that
> when I did |make install| the recorded scripts failed, but succeeded
> with |make distrib|.
>
>> The only new bugs in the process were to the Chandler launcher where
>> some environment variables were shown to need changes and one of  
>> those
>> has been made and the other will be pushed to trunk today.
>
> So assuming my find is correct, would it be enough to just update  
> the rs
> branch? That should get the rs branch using the Chandler.po like it  
> should.
>
> Or is there something more we want to do about make distrib target?

It would be nice to address the problem with the distrib target  
before committing the Chandler.po fix -- otherwise there would be no  
way to verify that the make distrib problem is really fixed, since  
the Chandler.po fix would mask it.

>
> -- 
>   Heikki Toivonen
>
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