Re: TAP test breakage on MacOS X

On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 5:09 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
> On 10/2/14 3:19 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
>> 1..2
>> ok 1 - initdb with invalid option nonzero exit code
>> ok 2 - initdb with invalid option prints error message
>> # Looks like your test exited with 256 just after 2.
>> not ok 3 - initdb options handling
>>
>> # Failed test 'initdb options handling'
>> # at /opt/local/lib/perl5/5.12.5/Test/Builder.pm line 229.
>
> Is this repeatable? Bisectable? Has it ever worked? Have you tried a
> clean build? Did you upgrade something in your operating system?

I don't think it's ever worked. I just didn't get around to reporting
it before now.

> If none of this gets us closer to an answer, I can try to produce a
> patch that produces more details for such failures.

A test that fails for no reason that can be gleaned from the output is
not an improvement over not having a test at all.

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