Avoid running non-portable testcases

Ziemowit Laski zlaski@apple.com
Fri May 27 20:07:00 GMT 2005


On 27 May 2005, at 12.38, Mike Stump wrote:

> On May 26, 2005, at 10:51 PM, Ziemowit Laski wrote:
>>> I ran the new Objective-C testcases on linux, and found a few that 
>>> seem to be non-portable, so I turned them off for now...
>>
>> Hmmm... shouldn't test cases be turned off iff it is determined that 
>> they are not applicable to a given target, rather than merely when 
>> they fail? :-)
>
> I wanted to preserve the 0 unexpected failures for now, just to be 
> conservative.

Perhaps other maintainers can chime in here (hint, hint), but the 
failures you're sweeping under the carpet_are_ unexpected, until 
someone establishes otherwise (e.g., if they depend on some Cupertino 
Darwinism); therefore, I think you just let the failures be.
>
> I noticed that the obj-c++ testsuite appears to not expose the newly 
> built libobjc.so to the running app:
>
> ./method-17.exe: error in loading shared libraries: libobjc.so.1: 
> cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> FAIL: obj-c++.dg/method-17.mm execution test
>
> :-(  So, my testing of obj-c++ on linux isn't going smoothly, plus, 
> people put in some dependencies on newer tcl into the testsuite, which 
> didn't help the matter.

Yeah, I'm having problems with libobjc.so and ObjC as well (see my 
other e-mail)...

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