Re: [Firebird-test] Attempting to run qmtests

[Mark O'D. <mar...@gm...>]

I found the problem, and Helen will give me an i-told-you-so for it I am 
sure!

It seemed that any test with lines > 64 characters in length fails.

even a:

/usr/bin/isql-fb < test.sql

will ignore the first 64 characters for lines that are longer than 64 
characters - this is a problem with the libeditline provided in Unbuntu 
(and Debian).

Mind you it took a bit of digging though and looking at the internals of 
qmtest and fbqa.py before I figured that out.

The bug doesnt occur in our older localized version of libeditline. 
There isnt any reported bug for Debian or Ubuntu but someone fixed 
something similar on minix-editline.  So I created a bug report for Unbuntu.

    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/editline/+bug/307652

Then having gone that far, it wasn't too hard then to then give them a 
patch to fix is as well.


Philippe Makowski wrote:
> Mark,
>> And the actual test ran fine, when I did it by hand.
>>
> and what result if you run only one test, for example
> $qmtest run -C context.txt functional.arno.derived_tables.derived_tables_06
> 

yep, I was doing that, and comparing out put to one that worked, then I 
added some code within FirebirdTest to debug what was actually sent 
through to isql, since it does several substitutions to the input. 
Finally when dumping and comparing stdin/stderr/stdout for a working and 
non-working cases, I tried the line length.

Anyway, a side effect is I've added some debugging code that will with a 
switch print the SQL code, used for setup and execution when you run the 
tests.

Now where was I...

Cheers - Mark