From: Alan W. I. <ir...@be...> - 2009-05-09 04:12:47
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On 2009-05-08 23:19-0400 Hazen Babcock wrote: > Alan W. Irwin wrote: >> On 2009-05-08 22:30-0400 Hazen Babcock wrote: >> >>> >>> Is it expected that ctest --verbose in the build tree will end with the >>> following message? >>> >>> 91% tests passed, 2 tests failed out of 22 >>> >>> The following tests FAILED: >>> 21 - examples_pdfqt (Timeout) >>> 22 - examples_compare (Failed) >>> Errors while running CTest >> >> No, that sounds like a problem. Could you share the output from >> >> ctest --verbose -R pdfqt >> >> ? >> >> You should see a list of the examples that are completed before the timeout >> occurs. You might also want to play with the --test-timeout ctest option >> (see ctest --help-full for details) in case the default timeout is too low >> to get all the way through the pdfqt examples on your computer. > > How long would you expect each example to take? The tests seem to be going > really slowly (many minutes per example) on my computer, which is a fairly > recent vintage laptop. Core 2 Duo T9600 2.8 GHZ, 4GB RAM. ~40 seconds or so on my 2.4GHz Core 2 duo (Linux raven 2.6.26-2-amd64 #1 SMP Fri Mar 27 04:02:59 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux) box for the complete ctest --verbose -R pdfqt command to finish. So obviously something is really wrong on your system. Could you confirm all other ctests are reasonably speedy (less than a minute)? For example, what about ctest --verbose -R epsqt and ctest --verbose -R pscairo ? Are all qt tests slow or just pdfqt? Forget my idea of somehow having a very low default ctest timeout. As far as I can tell that is 1500 seconds by default which should be fine for all our tests except for systems where there is something really wrong for some/all of the tests. I am using the downloadable sdk (which contains Qt-4.5.1) you can get from TrollTech. Perhaps that is why my results are so speedy compared to yours. What version of Qt4 do you have? What Linux distro? (Mine is Debian Lenny). Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ |