[Xapian-devel] Build problems

[James Aylett]

On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 05:06:31PM +0000, Olly Betts wrote:

> The idea is that we don't automatically clean up the indexed versions of
> files which are only read by tests (in order to help speed up the
> testsuite) but this is sometimes problematic as you've just found.
> Perhaps we should nuke the cached databases when a test fails.  Or
> scrap this caching - perhaps it isn't such a time penalty as we
> originally assumed.  Worth timing at least.

Nuking on failure might work.

> > Now I'm getting failures with the remotetcp backend, because the test
> > suite is looking for "Listening...", but this is going to stderr,
> > which is being sent to /dev/null by the testsuite (again).
> 
> The "Listening..." goes to stdout, not stderr.

Umm. Then it isn't working properly :-/

Oh... it doesn't cope with a heavily loaded machine? So it isn't
waiting long enough for the listening message. It's working for me
now, and we were under heavy load earlier...

J

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