[Scons-users] [Bug report] Tests fail on non-Intel platforms

[Bill Deegan]

Mats,

Indeed.
Perhaps just skip the test if on arch not supported?

-Bill

On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 11:05 AM Mats Wichmann <mats at wichmann.us> wrote:

> On 10/08/2018 08:27 AM, Bill Deegan wrote:
> > Matěj,
> >
> > Thanks for the report.
> > That shouldn't be too hard to fix.
> > Can you file a bug in our github tracker?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Bill
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 6:56 AM Matej Cepl <mcepl at suse.cz> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> when working on cleaning up packaging for openSUSE, I discovered
> >> couple of texts which fail on Linux running on non-Intel
> >> architectures (aarch64, armv7l, ppc64, ppc64le, s390x), while they pass
> >> on the same version of Linux distribution (openSUSE Tumbleweed) on Intel
> >> architecture:
> >>
> >> [ 1123s] Failed the following 14 tests:
> >> [ 1123s]        test/MSVS/vs-11.0-scc-files.py
> >> [ 1123s]        test/MSVS/vs-10.0-scc-legacy-files.py
> >> [ 1123s]        test/MSVS/vs-8.0-scc-legacy-files.py
> >> [ 1123s]        test/MSVS/vs-11.0-scc-legacy-files.py
> >> [ 1123s]        test/MSVS/vs-9.0-scc-legacy-files.py
> >> [ 1123s]        test/MSVS/vs-7.1-scc-files.py
> >> [ 1123s]        test/MSVS/vs-9.0-scc-files.py
> >> [ 1123s]        test/MSVS/vs-8.0-scc-files.py
> >> [ 1123s]        test/MSVS/vs-7.1-scc-legacy-files.py
> >> [ 1123s]        test/MSVS/vs-7.0-scc-files.py
> >> [ 1123s]        test/MSVS/vs-7.0-scc-legacy-files.py
> >> [ 1123s]        test/MSVS/vs-14.0-scc-files.py
> >> [ 1123s]        test/MSVS/vs-14.0-scc-legacy-files.py
> >> [ 1123s]        test/MSVS/vs-10.0-scc-files.py
>
> all tests which _can_ run on non-Windows platforms because they don't
> use the MS tools, just manipulate the project files which are xml, but
> which don't really make any sense. MSCommon/vc.py has an architecture
> translation table which maps things Windows is supported on - I know
> because I dug there after my project complained ARM triggered a problem,
> and that *is* supported on recent Windows.  Seems odd to add
> architectures to a windows-specific table that don't apply to windows so
> probably a fix will involve properly catching the exception instead?
>
> after taking a quick look: this is intentionally raising an exception
> inside the try block, guess the code needs to do something better with
> the answer.
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