[CMake] Weired behavior with CTest & Fedora 10 & g++ 4.3.2

[Bill Lorensen]

I did a clean build last night. This morning I see one bogus failure.

Bill

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 1:18 PM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Some more information. This is not a clean build each night. With the
> compiler flags I use, it just takes too long. However, tonight, I'll
> clean the build tree. Perhaps some system file has been updated. I let
> Fedora automatically update my system.
>
> Bill
>
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> David,
>>
>> I have a Fedora 9, ctest  2.6-patch 1 RC-11 and gcc 4.3.0 that
>> exhibits similar behavior. This is for the itk dashboard which has
>> about 1400 tests on over 30 platforms. I have only noticed this on
>> this one platform. Both tests segfault without any output. When I
>> rerun them manually, they pass.
>>
>> Here's one example from last night where two tests fail:
>> http://www.cdash.org/CDash/testDetails.php?test=14056769&build=232080
>> http://www.cdash.org/CDash/testDetails.php?test=14056775&build=232080
>>
>> The previous night I had two different tests fail:
>> http://www.cdash.org/CDash/testDetails.php?test=14002130&build=231405
>> http://www.cdash.org/CDash/testDetails.php?test=14002264&build=231405
>>
>> Some of these build have tests that are truly failures, on all platforms.
>>
>> All of the bogus failures only occur on this one platform. I was
>> assuming I had some memory errors or some other hardware thing going
>> on.
>>
>> Maybe not...
>>
>> Until your post I had not noticed that it is always 2 bogus failures.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 7:00 AM, David Graf <david.graf at 28msec.com> wrote:
>>> Hello
>>>
>>> We have a weired problem when we compile and test our software on Fedora 10
>>> with g++ 4.3.2.
>>> We have around 600 tests. When we execute these tests in one ctest run, two
>>> random tests always fail (without any regularity). We tested it on two
>>> different fedora installation with ctest 2.4 and 2.6. This strange behavior
>>> occurs on both machines.
>>> After some debugging, we observed that the failing tests do not produce any
>>> log output. Even when adding the std::cout out statements into the code, we
>>> do not get some output. We assume there is some bad interaction between
>>> Fedora 10 and ctest.
>>>
>>> Has someone noticed the same strange behavior?
>>>
>>> David
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