Re: [GnuCOBOL 3.2] testsuite: 3 4 5 ... 1280 1281 1282 failed

[Simon Sobisch]

Am 20.09.2023 um 03:16 schrieb Kai Wetlesen:
> A large proportion of tests failed while building GnuCOBOL on the MacOS
> platform. I have attached both the config and debug log.

Thanks for the note - even when you likely want to inspect the "detailed
failed tests" in the testsuite.log.

> I've tried adjusting my library install paths to no avail. All libraries
> passed their unit tests prior to compiling GnuCOBOL. What am I doing
> wrong here?

On thing is not (necessarily) wrong, but "special": you obviously use a
linker that outputs warnings for directories that don't exist.

testsuite.log is full of entries

+ld: warning: directory not found for option
'-L/Users/kai.wetlesen/.local/gnucobol-3.2/lib'

This entry (library folder for installation) is auto-included during
configure, as "sometimes" you need this also for the test runs, you
definitely will use that in the installed version (where it is created
if it doesn't exist).


You may do one of the following:

1 after running configure manually adjust the generated file
tests/atlocal and remove the warned entry from COB_LIBS.

2 create the folder `mkdir /Users/kai.wetlesen/.local/gnucobol-3.2/lib`
(or run `make install`) then run the tests again

3 disable the linker warning (I don't know how to do that for this warning)

Then re-run "make check" again.

> Thanks,
> Kai

You're welcome,
Simon