Re: What is happening on buildfarm member baiji?

Magnus Hagander wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>> The last two runs on baiji have failed at the installcheck stage,
>>> with symptoms that look a heck of a lot like the most recent system
>>> catalog changes haven't taken effect (eg, it doesn't seem to know
>>> about pg_type.typarray). Given that the previous "check" step
>>> passed, the most likely explanation seems to be that some part
>>> of the "install" step failed --- I've not tried to reproduce the
>>> behavior but it looks like it might be explained if the install
>>> target's postgres.bki file was not getting overwritten. So we
>>> have two issues: what exactly is going wrong (some new form of
>>> Vista brain death no doubt), and why isn't the buildfarm script
>>> noticing?
>>>
>>
>>
>> The script will not even run if the install directory exists:
>>
>> die "$buildroot/$branch has $pgsql or inst directories!"
>> if ((!$from_source && -d $pgsql) || -d "inst");
>>
>> But the install process is different for MSVC. It could be that we are
>> screwing up there.
>
> Uh, but that piece of code you're referring to is from the bulidfarm
> code, right? Isn't it the same?

Yes, but it might be that the MSVC install doesn't actually use that
location properly. Unfortunately, its logging is less than verbose, unlike
the standard install procedure.

>
>
>> I no longer have an MSVC box, so I can't tell so easily ;-(
>
> Non-Vista MSVC boxes seem to pass fine (mastodon and skylark, for
> example - skylark fails on something completely different, not fully
> investigated yet, but looks to be a buildfarm problem rather than a
> backend one), so I don't think it's the MSVC procedure alone that's the
> cause of it.
>
>

Possibly. My point was that I can't even investigate how MSVC is working
at all.

cheers

andrew