Am Dienstag, den 28.02.2012, 16:22 +0000 schrieb John Darrington: > On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 05:05:53PM +0100, bojo42 wrote: > Am Dienstag, den 28.02.2012, 14:54 +0000 schrieb John Darrington: > > > I chatted briefly with #postgres on IRC. Nobody could give any > > definite answer, but suggestions are: > > > > * The > path"/build/buildd-pspp_0.7.9+git20120219-1-amd64-O7Y1R3/pspp-0.7.9+git20120219/tests/testsuite.dir/184/.s.PGSQL.6543" > > > is too long. If this is true, then I consider it a bug in postgres. > > > But perhaps we should try it with something shorter, just to see. > > I would vote for this one, as it would also explain my unability to > reproduce the failure and it's . When i compare my own build logs > (pbuilder) with those from Debian's autobuilder network the build > directory path is quite longer: > > /build/buildd-pspp_0.7.9+git20120214-1-amd64-znUmhA/pspp-0.7.9 > +git20120214 > > vs > > /tmp/buildd/pspp-0.7.9+git20120214 > > Could you try running your autobuilder within a very long pathname, to see if > it provokes the problem. If it does, then we'll at least have some confidence > that it really is the problem.
I will try to do that tomorrow, but Jeremy seems to have that problem as well on his Mac. > > But i don't see how we can do something much shorter as most of the path > comes from the autobuilders itself and they surely won't let us touch > them ;) But couldn't you use a relative path when calling postgres? > > I'm not sure that a relative path would work, since it has to be used by > several > processes which do not necessarily share the same current directory. Hmm ... can you think of another solution with in the testsuite? > > > * Perhaps the filesystem doesn't support Unix Domian Sockets or has > been > > mounted with an option which disallows their creation. > > > > Do you think the Debian maintainers of Postgres might be able to help? > > Probably, but this might be a bigger undertaking, because even if it is > a bug over there we need a new version in Debian and also in every > derivat before we can work further on PSPP. Therefore i would prefer a > change in the testsuite, so we're more independent and faster on finally > getting a proper package in Debian. > > I meant "help" by way of advice and suggestions. Not necessarily by hacking > the > server to suit us. Sure, I only initally only feared how long it may take to get it fixed in Postgres and released in Debian & Co for the case it's "their" bug ;) > > > J' > > _______________________________________________ pspp-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-dev
