Subject: Re: [bug#31213] [PATCH] gnu: gst-plugins-base: Disable tests that create network
From: Roel Janssen <[email-masked]>
To: Marius Bakke <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2018 19:16:35 +0200
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Marius Bakke <[email-masked]> writes:

> Roel Janssen <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> Dear Guix,
>>
>> The build for gst-plugins-base is failing, breaking the builds of quite
>> a few dependent packages.  The attached patch disables the two tests
>> that are failing.
>
> I cannot reproduce this failure, and on Hydra everything is fine:
>
> https://hydra.gnu.org/job/gnu/master/gst-plugins-base-1.12.4.x86_64-linux
>
> Strange that it fails on your machine, it suggests some "impurity" in
> the build environment.  Can you try to figure out why it does not work?
>
>> It seems that both tests attempt to set-up or connect to a TCP socket on
>> "localhost".  Would this work in the build environment?
>
> TCP sockets on localhost are normally fine, as long as they don't use
> getaddrinfo() (I've been thinking about adding support for that).

Right..  So the patch is not needed.

Kind regards,
Roel Janssen