Re: [gpsd-dev] regression tests failing

[Eric S. Raymond]

Beat Bolli <address@hidden>:
> On 07.01.15 19:01, Greg Troxel wrote:
> > 164 failed several of the main tests.  This seems to be semi-random.
> > 
> > snippet from 163:
> > 
> > gcc -o test_json.o -c -D_GNU_SOURCE -Wmissing-prototypes -Wextra -Wall 
> > -Wno-uninitialized -Wno-missing-field-initializers -Wcast-align 
> > -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes 
> > -Wpointer-arith -Wreturn-type -pthread -Wmissing-declarations -g -O0 
> > -pthread test_json.c
> > gcc -o test_json -pthread -Wl,-rpath=//usr/y0/lib test_json.o -L. -lrt 
> > -lgps -lm
> > ./test_json
> > JSON unit test 'time' real attribute eval failed, value = 1119165161.890000.
> > scons: *** [json-regress] Error 1
> > scons: building terminated because of errors.
> 
> This test currently also fails under Linux.
> 
> This patch helps:
> 
> diff --git a/SConstruct b/SConstruct
> index 10e12db..02180d9 100644
> --- a/SConstruct
> +++ b/SConstruct
> @@ -1691,7 +1691,7 @@ Utility('unpack-makeregress', [test_libgps], [
> 
>  # Unit-test the JSON parsing
>  json_regress = Utility('json-regress', [test_json], [
> -    '$SRCDIR/test_json'
> +    'TZ=UTC $SRCDIR/test_json'
>      ])
> 
>  # consistency-check the driver methods
> 
> -- 

For the list: This papered over the real issue, yazug and I have 
developed and pushed a better fix.
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