[m-users.] One test fails when compiling the compiler

[Julien Fischer]

On Thu, 23 Jun 2022, Volker Wysk wrote:

> Am Donnerstag, dem 23.06.2022 um 23:26 +1000 schrieb Zoltan Somogyi:
>> 2022-06-23 23:18 GMT+10:00 "Volker Wysk" <post at volker-wysk.de>:
>>> I'm trying to install Mercury from the git sources, and one test fails.
>>
>> You can ignore it. It is a known problem in the setup of the test itself.
>
> I'm able to ignore it, but the build process isn't. The build aborts after
> the unsuccessful test. I've tried to skip the tests step in INSTALL.git by
> removing "tools/bootcheck $parallel &&". But then the install afterwards
> fails, because "stage2" isn't found. Creating this directory doesn't work
> either. I've tried to remove tests/debugger/user_event_shallow*
> but then I get the error "cannot read source file for module
> `user_event_shallow'."
>
> I'd like to disable the tests completely, as they take up quite some time.
> My INSTALL.git looks like this:
>
>
> ...
> parallel=-j16
>
> ./prepare.sh &&
> ./configure --enable-mm-grades \
>            --disable-java-grade \
>            --prefix=/usr/local/lib/mercury-git-2022-06-23 \
>    2>&1 | tee /usr/local/sw/mercury/configure.log  &&
> touch Mmake.params &&
> touch Mercury.options &&
> mmake depend &&
> mmake MMAKEFLAGS=$parallel &&
> tools/bootcheck $parallel &&
> cd stage2 &&
> mmake install MMAKEFLAGS=$parallel &&
> true

You can tell the bootcheck script not to run the test suite using the
--no-test-suite option.

Julien.