On Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 6:44 AM Richard Purdie
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2023-04-13 at 06:16 -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 3:14 AM Richard Purdie
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, 2023-04-12 at 22:54 -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
> > > > Signed-off-by: Khem Raj <[email protected]>
> > > > ---
> > > >  ...0001-Provide-fixes-for-tests-on-musl.patch | 73 +++++++++++++++++++
> > > >  meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk_5.2.1.bb      |  7 +-
> > > >  2 files changed, 77 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > > >  create mode 100644 
> > > > meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk/0001-Provide-fixes-for-tests-on-musl.patch
> > > >
> > > > diff --git 
> > > > a/meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk/0001-Provide-fixes-for-tests-on-musl.patch
> > > >  
> > > > b/meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk/0001-Provide-fixes-for-tests-on-musl.patch
> > > > new file mode 100644
> > > > index 0000000000..4ff2466c0e
> > > > --- /dev/null
> > > > +++ 
> > > > b/meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk/0001-Provide-fixes-for-tests-on-musl.patch
> > > > @@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
> > > > +From 95bcf4397b6f727208f3c627b7d00dacec406d02 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > > > +From: Khem Raj <[email protected]>
> > > > +Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2023 21:57:18 -0700
> > > > +Subject: [PATCH] Provide fixes for tests on musl
> > > > +
> > > > +Fixes rebt8b1 and regx8bit
> > > > +Disable clos1way6 [1]
> > > > +
> > > > +Disable commas and backsmalls1, they do not work
> > > > +with musl-locales somehow even though we do isntall
> > > > +en_US.UTF-8 on target
> > > > +
> > > > +[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gawk/2021-02/msg00005.html
> > > > +
> > > > +Upstream-Status: Inappropriate [musl-specific]
> > > > +Signed-off-by: Khem Raj <[email protected]>
> > > > +---
> > > > + test/Maketests | 11 ++++-------
> > > > +
> > >
> > > Carrying a patch like this makes me a bit nervous as:
> > >
> > > a) it is only applied for musl so it makes recipe upgrade testing a
> > > nightmare
> > >
> > > b) there doesn't appear to be any path to upstream it, we'd just have
> > > to carry it indefinitely.
> > >
> > > c) the reasons for the failure don't seem to be understood.
> >
> > reasons are clear,  these tests need full locale support which we do
> > not have with musl.
>
> The above says something quite different to what the patch says:
>
> "they do not work with musl-locales somehow"

yeah the metadata patch subject should be improved to say disable tests

>
> which sounds like nobody has looked into it.

yes, and my localedata knowledge is limited to root cause this further sadly.

>
> > > Is there something we can do to avoid having to carry this
> > > indefinitely?

You can do sed operations from the recipe. I don't know how that will be better
than patch. btw. we are already carrying another patch to disable other tests
because I guess they fail on Autobuilder on stress but not always,
because they worked
fine on my ptest run.

https://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/tree/meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk/remove-sensitive-tests.patch

Do we have plans to address this with upstream as well ?

> > >
> > > Out of interest did alpine do anything for this?
> >
> > they have patches.
>
> The same as ours or different? Was there any discussion with upstream
> on this?

There is one failure which is common and I have quoted upstream discussion
others are not. I dont have alpine install handy to try it out quickly
to confirm.

>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>
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