Bug 505324 – net-misc/socat-1.7.2.3: run tests, when it shouldn't do this

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description Alex Efros 2014-03-22 05:59:52 UTC]

socat tests are fails on my system, and according to bug 277104 it's sad, but old and expected behaviour for socat.

Problem is, after switching EAPI from 4 (socat-1.7.2.2) to 5 (socat-1.7.2.3) it begins to run tests while emerge, and I think this happens because something is wrong in ebuild - probably it wasn't correctly converted to EAPI=5.

My setup is somewhat unusual according to running tests because I want to run tests for most perl modules but not other packages. To accomplish this I'm using setup recommended to me in bug 482844:

  ### make.conf
  FEATURES="${FEATURES} test"

  ### profile/use.mask
  test

  ### profile/package.use.mask
  perl-core/* -test
  dev-perl/* -test
  # Mask USE=test per-package to override above and don't run tests for:
  dev-perl/Crypt-SSLeay test
  dev-perl/DBD-mysql test
  ...

As you see, this way tests should be run only for most of perl packages but not other packages - with only exception for net-misc/socat at this time (actually, there are may be some other packages which also run tests but they won't fail and thus go unnoticed).

[Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2014-03-22 14:59:05 UTC]

Nothing changed at all, really. If you want src_test() to be non-fatal, then simply set FEATURES=test-fail-continue. Bug #277104 comment #6 was never committed (c.f [1]).

[1] http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/net-misc/socat/socat-1.7.2.2.ebuild?hideattic=0&view=markup

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 277104 ***

[Comment 2 Alex Efros 2014-03-22 19:36:28 UTC]

(In reply to Jeroen Roovers from comment #1)
> Nothing changed at all, really.

With EAPI=4 src_test() doesn't run in my configuration, but with EAPI=5 src_test() is executed - can you please explain why this happens?