RE: Failures in t9001-send-email

[<rsbecker@nexbridge.com>]

On April 21, 2022 6:39 PM, Alyssa Ross wrote:
>> I think a patch to do that would be worth having/reviewing (hint
>> hint!). As always the real work is updating docs, running the tests
>> etc., digging up ML discussions to see if there's been any past
>> arguments for/against it etc.
>>
>> In this case the code change itself should be trivial (I honestly
>> didn't look this time, but really, it's a config default...). So this
>> seems like a perfect task for someone not too familiar with Git's
>> codebase, but still interested in contributing :)
>
>I thought I'd have a go at a patch, but I wasn't able to get the tests
>running:
>
>    prove ./t9001-send-email.sh
>    ./t9001-send-email.sh .. Dubious, test returned 1 (wstat 256, 0x100)
>    Failed 15/188 subtests
>      (less 1 skipped subtest: 172 okay)
>
>    Test Summary Report
>    -------------------
>    ./t9001-send-email.sh (Wstat: 256 Tests: 188 Failed: 15)
>      Failed tests:  27, 51, 78-84, 123, 147-150, 185
>      Non-zero exit status: 1
>    Files=1, Tests=188, 17 wallclock secs ( 0.06 usr  0.01 sys + 11.66 cusr
5.37 csys =
>17.10 CPU)
>    Result: FAIL
>
>I had a look at the tests to try to guess what was wrong, but I didn't come
up with
>anything.  Any ideas?  When I run make test, every other test is fine, it's
just the
>send-email tests that are problematic.

I have the same issue on NonStop. Not sure why, other than our sendmail is
massively broken.
--Randall