[Scons-dev] Builbot test fails

[Russel Winder]

Looking at recent Buildbot results, the D tools are causing test fails
on the Fedora20 and Debian76 builders.

I am not sure why the Fedora20 builder
test/D/SharedObjects/sconstest-ldc.py is failing as the recent pull
request was explicitly to fix that issue. I will investigate.

On the Debian76 builder there appear to be three sorts of error:

1. The gdmd problem: gcd 4.6 includes the gdmd Perl script gcd 4.9.1
does not, I have not as yet investigated this problem. I will manually
install a version of the gdmd script temporarily to create the problem
on my machine and find a minimal change to the tests to deal with this.
Current hypothesis is to set environment variable HOME if gdmd is being
used in the dmd tool. For Posix machines this can be /tmp, I am not sure
what to do for Windows machines. Anyone any proposal?

2. ncurses is not installed in the debian76 builder and one of the D
tests is about linking to it. Does the SCons test framework allow for
detection of libraries as well as detection of executables?

3. Some of the d tests are explicitly about creating 64-bit executables
but the debian76 builder gcc is a 32-bit only system. This implies the
test must check for 32-bit/64-bit host platform before executing. Does
SCons have an idiomatic way of testing for this?

Interestingly, looking at one of the cases of problem 3 highlights an
actual tool error. Which is good. Yay for CI :-)

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