[Python-Dev] Python unit tests failing on Pybots farm

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Grig Gheorghiu schrieb:
> OK, I deleted the checkout directory on one of my buidslaves and
> re-ran the build steps. The tests passed. So my conclusion is that a
> full rebuild is needed for the tests to pass after the last checkins
> (which included files such as configure and configure.in).

Indeed, you had to re-run configure. There was a bug where -Werror was
added to the build flags, causing several configure tests to fail
(most notably, it would determine that there's no memmove on Linux).

> Maybe the makefiles should be modified so that a full rebuild is
> triggered when the configure and configure.in files are changed?

The makefiles already do that: if configure changes, a plain
"make" will first re-run configure.

> At this point, I'll have to tell all the Pybots owners to delete their
> checkout directories and start a new build.

Not necessarily. You can also ask, at the buildbot GUI, that a
non-existing branch is build. This should cause the checkouts
to be deleted (and then the build to fail); the next regular
build will check out from scratch.

Regards,
Martin