Bug 635320 – dev-libs/libusb-1.0.21 : Failed 4 tests

• Status: CONFIRMED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Toralf Förster 2017-10-24 16:35:39 UTC]

Ran 4 tests
Passed 0 tests
Failed 4 tests
Error in 0 tests
Skipped 0 tests
 * ERROR: dev-libs/libusb-1.0.21::gentoo failed (test phase):

  -------------------------------------------------------------------

  This is an unstable amd64 chroot image at a tinderbox (==build bot)
  name: 17.0-no-multilib_libressl-test_20171022-133742

  -------------------------------------------------------------------

gcc-config -l:
 [1] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-6.4.0 *

Available Python interpreters, in order of preference:
  [1]   python3.4
  [2]   python2.7 (fallback)




emerge -qpv dev-libs/libusb
[ebuild  N    ] dev-libs/libusb-1.0.21  USE="-debug -doc -examples -static-libs {-test} -udev"

[Comment 1 Toralf Förster 2017-10-24 16:35:42 UTC]

Created attachment 499896 [details]
emerge-info.txt

[Comment 2 Toralf Förster 2017-10-24 16:35:45 UTC]

Created attachment 499898 [details]
dev-libs:libusb-1.0.21:20171024-041352.log

[Comment 3 Toralf Förster 2017-10-24 16:35:48 UTC]

Created attachment 499900 [details]
emerge-history.txt

[Comment 4 Toralf Förster 2017-10-24 16:35:51 UTC]

Created attachment 499902 [details]
environment

[Comment 5 Toralf Förster 2017-10-24 16:35:54 UTC]

Created attachment 499904 [details]
etc.portage.tbz2

[Comment 6 Toralf Förster 2017-10-24 16:35:57 UTC]

Created attachment 499906 [details]
logs.tbz2

[Comment 7 Toralf Förster 2017-10-24 16:36:00 UTC]

Created attachment 499908 [details]
temp.tbz2

[Comment 8 Toralf Förster 2017-10-24 16:36:03 UTC]

Created attachment 499910 [details]
tests.tbz2

[Comment 9 Peter Stuge 2017-10-24 16:59:06 UTC]

(In reply to Toralf Förster from comment #0)
> Failed 4 tests

The tests fail because they depend on external hardware and/or at the very least a particular kernel configurations/udev environment.

The tests are poor and it would make sense to simply ignore them.