Subject: Re: [bug#41562] use consistent arguments.

From: Marius Bakke <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 30 May 2020 10:07:09 +0200

Tom Zander <[email-masked]> writes:

> On vrijdag 29 mei 2020 22:56:18 CEST Marius Bakke wrote:
>> Tom Zander via Guix-patches via <[email-masked]> writes:
>> > As suggested on IRC
>> > 
>> >>From bc9a3faa045579f48804cf42f958409e51cdfbf6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> >>
>> > From: TomZ <[email-masked]>
>> > Date: Wed, 27 May 2020 13:21:58 +0200
>> > Subject: [PATCH] gnu: flowee: Disable unpredictable test.
>> > 
>> > * gnu/packages/finance.scm (flowee): The test 'api' has some timeouts
>> > 
>> >   which fail half the time in a build, so disable the test.
>> 
>> Can you move this piece of information to a comment in the code?
>
> Can you point to the file I find the code in, to add this to?
>
> In case you mean the package description, its already there.

Oh you're right.  In that case it would be clearer to change the commit
message to something like "really disable the black box tests".

>> Also, this should say (flowee)[arguments]: ...
>> 
>> > diff --git a/gnu/packages/finance.scm b/gnu/packages/finance.scm
>> > index f182057bb4..d176ac0660 100644
>> > --- a/gnu/packages/finance.scm
>> > +++ b/gnu/packages/finance.scm
>> > @@ -1531,7 +1531,7 @@ like Flowee the Hub, which Fulcrum connects to over
>> > RPC.")> 
>> >           (base32
>> >           "1vwvaxm3b71pfx8l4rrv06wqks6xdf2333w856b36s1bzvj53rhc"))))
>> >      
>> >      (build-system cmake-build-system)
>> >      (arguments
>> > 
>> > -     `(#:configure-flags '("-Dbuild_tests=ON" "-Denable_gui=OFF")
>> > +     `(#:configure-flags '("-Dbuild_tests=ON" "-Denable_gui=OFF"
>> > "-Denable_gui=OFF")
>> This should probably not be here?
>
> Why not?

I don't think passing -Denable_gui=OFF twice makes a difference.  Does
it?

>> >         #:phases
>> >         
>> >          (modify-phases %standard-phases
>> >          
>> >            (add-before 'configure 'make-qt-deterministic
>> > 
>> > @@ -1546,6 +1546,8 @@ like Flowee the Hub, which Fulcrum connects to over
>> > RPC.")> 
>> >              (lambda _
>> >              
>> >                (substitute* "testing/CMakeLists.txt"
>> >                
>> >                  (("test_api") ""))
>> 
>> Can this be removed?  It looks like it tries to do the same as your new
>> substitution below.
>
> Same file, two substitutes because there are two lines that need changing. 
> CMake blocks for 1) the actual subdir and 2) a build-dependency for 'make-
> check'

Makes sense, thanks for the explanation.