From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...>
Date: 2005-12-26T19:19:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Inconsistent testing Ruby 1.8.4 on Tiger.

"sean.swolfe@gmail.com" <sean.swolfe@gmail.com> writes:

> I was able to build ruby 1.8.4 on my Tiger (OSX 10.4.3) box here.
> Everything built fine, and it appears that the readline support works
> as well. But when i run "make test-all" I get Inconsistent results.
> Ocne I'd get the following failures:
>
>   1) Failure:
> test_cgi(TestWEBrickCGI)

> <"/webrick.cgi"> expected but was
> <"<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN\">\n<HTML>\n
> <HEAD><TITLE>Internal Server Error</TITLE></HEAD>\n  <BODY>\n
> <H1>Internal Server Error</H1>\n    Premature end of script headers:
> /Users/seanwolfe/src/ruby-1.8.4/test/webrick/webrick.cgi\n    <HR>\n
> <ADDRESS>\n     WEBrick/1.3.1 (Ruby/1.8.4/2005-12-24) OpenSSL/0.9.7b
> at\n     127.0.0.1:59698\n    </ADDRESS>\n  </BODY>\n</HTML>\n">.

I noticed that too (late), doing "make install" before testing makes it go
away, probably a path issue of the ruby interpreter.

>   2) Failure:
> test_nil_parse(Test_Features)
>     [./xmlrpc/test_features.rb:43:in `test_nil_parse'
>      /Users/seanwolfe/src/ruby-1.8.4/lib/xmlrpc/parser.rb:803:in
> `each_installed_parser'
>      /Users/seanwolfe/src/ruby-1.8.4/lib/xmlrpc/parser.rb:801:in
> `each_installed_parser'
>      ./xmlrpc/test_features.rb:33:in `test_nil_parse'
>      /Users/seanwolfe/src/ruby-1.8.4/lib/xmlrpc/create.rb:95:in
> `each_installed_writer'
>      /Users/seanwolfe/src/ruby-1.8.4/lib/xmlrpc/create.rb:93:in
> `each_installed_writer'
>      ./xmlrpc/test_features.rb:30:in `test_nil_parse']:
> <[nil, {"test"=>nil}, [nil, nil]]> expected but was
> <[nil, {"test"=>nil}, [nil, 1, nil]]>.
>
> With another run, I'd get:
>  /Users/seanwolfe/src/ruby-1.8.4/lib/rational.rb:453: [BUG]
> Segmentation fault

Run in gdb and post a backtrace.

> I've also seen the last error before, but on different files.
>
> All other tests seem to pass. IS this any call for alarm?  If there is
> something wrong, I don't want to overwrite my current working ruby
> 1.8.2 install. I also never liked installing packages with fink or
> DarwinPorts, always seem to muck things up. Does anyone have a
> successful test run of 1.84 from building on tiger?

That said, I built on Panther.
Likely a GCC 4.0 issue, did you try building with 3.3?

> Sean
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