RE: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.33.0-rc2 (Build/Test Report)

["Randall S. Becker" <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>]

On August 16, 2021 2:09 PM, I wrote:
>To: 'Jeff King' <peff@peff.net>
>Cc: 'Junio C Hamano' <gitster@pobox.com>; 'git@vger.kernel.org' <git@vger.kernel.org>
>Subject: RE: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.33.0-rc2 (Build/Test Report)
>
>On August 13, 2021 12:07 PM, Jeff King wrote:
>>On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 10:22:19AM -0400, Randall S. Becker wrote:
>>
>>> >Just a report that t0301.9 hung again on 2.32.0-rc1 on the NonStop
>>> >ia64 platform, and t5563.8 hung on the x86 platform. These did not
>>
>>We don't seem to have a t5563. Do you mean t5562?
>Yes.
>
>>
>>> 2.32.0-rc2 passes on the NonStop x86 platform. ia64 is slower and
>>> still running. The test failure is t9001 because there is no sendmail
>>> on the platform. Is there a suitable dependency that I can use add to
>>> bypass this test?
>>
>>Hmm, we shouldn't be depending on platform sendmail for the tests
>>(after all, we do not want to actually send mail!). What does the failure look like?
>
>This looks strange. There is no signal 34 defined by the platform.
>
>test_must_fail: died by signal 34: git send-email --from=Example <nobody@example.com> --to=nobody@example.com --smtp-
>server=/home/git/git/t/trash directory.t9001-send-email/fake.sendmail --transfer-encoding=8bit 0001-Second.patch longline.patch not ok
>33 - reject long lines #
>#               z8=zzzzzzzz &&
>#               z64=$z8$z8$z8$z8$z8$z8$z8$z8 &&
>#               z512=$z64$z64$z64$z64$z64$z64$z64$z64 &&
>#               clean_fake_sendmail &&
>#               cp $patches longline.patch &&
>#               cat >>longline.patch <<-EOF &&
>#               $z512$z512
>#               not a long line
>#               $z512$z512
>#               EOF
>#               test_must_fail git send-email \
>#                       --from="Example <nobody@example.com>" \
>#                       --to=nobody@example.com \
>#                       --smtp-server="$(pwd)/fake.sendmail" \
>#                       --transfer-encoding=8bit \
>#                       $patches longline.patch \
>#                       2>actual &&
>#               cat >expect <<-\EOF &&
>#               fatal: longline.patch:35 is longer than 998 characters
>#               warning: no patches were sent
>#               EOF
>#               test_cmp expect actual
>#
>/

I should point out that all 6 failures in t9001 have the same characteristic - signal 34.