Re: Smoke 32025 PASS MSWin32 WinXP/.Net SP2 (x86/2 cpu)

This little run doesn't make sense:

On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 11:26:00PM +0000, Steve Hay wrote:
> Automated smoke report for 5.8.8 patch 32025
> maldoror.bath.planit.group: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6700

2.66GHz(~2660 MHz) (x86/2 cpu)
>     on        MSWin32 - WinXP/.Net SP2
>     using     cl version 12.00.8804
>     smoketime 3 hours 26 minutes (average 10 minutes 20
seconds)
> 
> Summary: PASS

>    32025     Configuration (common)
-DINST_TOP=$(INST_DRV)Smokedoesntexist


On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 11:25:00PM +0000, Steve Hay wrote:
> Automated smoke report for 5.8.8 patch 31996
> maldoror.bath.planit.group: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6700

2.66GHz(~2660 MHz) (x86/2 cpu)
>     on        MSWin32 - WinXP/.Net SP2
>     using     cl version 12.00.8804
>     smoketime 3 hours 25 minutes (average 10 minutes 18
seconds)
> 
> Summary: PASS

>    31996     Configuration (common)
-DINST_TOP=$(INST_DRV)Smokedoesntexist

So why the earlier source?

On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 11:25:00PM +0000, Steve Hay wrote:
> Automated smoke report for 5.8.8 patch 32025
> maldoror.bath.planit.group: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6700

2.66GHz(~2660 MHz) (x86/2 cpu)
>     on        MSWin32 - WinXP/.Net SP2
>     using     cl version 12.00.8804
>     smoketime 3 hours 25 minutes (average 10 minutes 16
seconds)
> 
> Summary: FAIL(F)

>    32025     Configuration (common)
-DINST_TOP=$(INST_DRV)Smokedoesntexist

And then why does it fail once it gets back to 32025?

Nicholas Clark

Nicholas Clark wrote:
> This little run doesn't make sense:
> 
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 11:26:00PM +0000, Steve Hay
wrote:
>> Automated smoke report for 5.8.8 patch 32025
>> Summary: PASS
> 
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 11:25:00PM +0000, Steve Hay
wrote:
>> Automated smoke report for 5.8.8 patch 31996
>> Summary: PASS
> 
> So why the earlier source?
> 
> On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 11:25:00PM +0000, Steve Hay
wrote:
>> Automated smoke report for 5.8.8 patch 32025
>> Summary: FAIL(F)
> 
> And then why does it fail once it gets back to 32025?

It's the same reason that all my other smokes have been
useless lately,
e.g. my most recent blead smoke was only patch 32072 instead
of more
like 32225:

http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.dail
y-build.reports/2007/11/msg51322
.html

Basically, my rsync has somehow restored itself to the
broken version
2.6.9 despite my having carefully downgraded it to 2.6.6, so
none of the
rsync's having been working. See:

http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl
5.porters/2007/09/msg129036.html

It's therefore been smoking whatever source trees happen to
be in place,
and a different tree is used on Wednesday because it does a
PERL_OLD_COPY_ON_WRITE smoke that evening. Not sure why the
second
attempt at 32025 failed when the first one had passed.

Looks like I'll have to upgrade my Test-Smoke after all to
get Abe's fix
for this rsync madness. (I chickened out before because some
tests
failed.)

Thanks for pointing this out.