[Scons-dev] Tests on Fedora 17

[William Deegan]

Russel,
On Oct 21, 2012, at 6:14 AM, Russel Winder <russel at winder.org.uk> wrote:


> On Sun, 2012-10-21 at 12:15 +0200, Dirk Bächle wrote:

>> Russel,

>> 

>> one of the Buildslaves is a Fedora 17 system, so I wonder why you still 

>> get so many fails. I added some notes about which packages I installed, to

>> 

>>   http://scons.org/wiki/InstallingBuildbotSlaves

>> 

>> . Maybe you can have a look and compare what's needed.

>> If things still don't work out, bug #2872 is still open. If you could 

>> attach a full error log there (containing all the stdout and stderr 

>> outputs) I'd be able to take a crack at it.

> 

> Until Fedora gets it's TeXLive act together I won't be using it in

> anger, just as an occasional RPM building machine and CI. So I can do

> tests of SCons tests in this "no real use" dark corner?

> 

> I suspect all the issues are to do with lack of infrastructure as Bill

> surmised.

> 

> I'll try and fulfil the request later today.


In theory the tests shouldn't fail in the case where you do the base install as you have.

I'll try to do a base FC17 install on a VM and see if I can sort some (or all) of it out.
-Bill