[Scons-users] SCons 4.2.0 test failures: test/option/option-v.py and test/Interactive/version.py

[Mats Wichmann]

On 8/1/21 1:06 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The tests in just-released 4.2.0 are failing for me.  The two test
> regressions seem to be related to unexpected(?) date syntax.  If I read
> the regex correctly, it's expecting the date not to contain any commas
> but for some reason it does.
> 
> 
> 1031/1213 (85.00%) /usr/bin/python3.8 test/option/option-v.py
> match_re: mismatch at line 1:
>    search re='^\tSCons: v\S+, [^,]*, by \S+ on \S+$'
>    line='	SCons: v4.2.0.fcdadeef19fe5fead09fa7544a27502be65312be, Sat, 31 Jul 2021 18:12:46 -0700, by bdbaddog on ProDog2020'
> SCons by Steven Knight et al.:
> 	SCons: v4.2.0.fcdadeef19fe5fead09fa7544a27502be65312be, Sat, 31 Jul 2021 18:12:46 -0700, by bdbaddog on ProDog2020
> 	SCons path: ['/tmp/portage/dev-util/scons-4.2.0/work/scons-4.2.0/SCons']
> Copyright (c) 2001 - 2021 The SCons Foundation
> 
> 
> FAILED test of /tmp/portage/dev-util/scons-4.2.0/work/scons-4.2.0/scripts/scons.py
> 	at line 49 of test/option/option-v.py
> 
> 

I can confirm those failures here as well.

There was something new in this area after a comment of mine about the 
times looking funny in some case - and yes, the comma after the day 
looks out of place.