RE: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.48.0-rc0

[<rsbecker@nexbridge.com>]

On December 17, 2024 8:48 AM, I wrote:
>>On Mon, Dec 16, 2024 at 07:07:25PM -0500, rsbecker@nexbridge.com wrote:
>>> On December 16, 2024 1:15 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>> >An early preview release Git v2.48.0-rc0 is now available for
>>> >testing at the usual places.  It is comprised of 446 non-merge
>>> >commits since v2.47.0, contributed by 66 people, 26 of which are new
faces
>[*].
>>> >
>>> >The tarballs are found at:
>>> >
>>> >    https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/testing/
>>> >
>>> >The following public repositories all have a copy of the
>>> >'v2.48.0-rc0' tag and the 'master' branch that the tag points at:
>>> >
>>> >  url = https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git
>>> >  url = https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/git/git
>>> >  url = git://repo.or.cz/alt-git.git  url =
>>> > https://github.com/gitster/git
>>>
>>> Did I miss something about GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_REF_FORMAT=reftable being
>>> removed from the test suite? That was available under 2.47.0 but if I
>>> supply it now, the tests crash at git init.
>>
>>Nothing should've changed here, and a local test run with that
>>environment variable works alright on my system. Could you please provide
more
>details?
>
>This is on the latest OS version of NonStop x86. The test is done via the
>following:
>With OpenSSL 3.4 The T0625 is Expat.
>
>When run as follows:
>GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_REF_FORMAT=reftable GIT_TEST_CLONE_2GB=true
>/usr/coreutils/bin/make -k test V=1 CFLAGS="-g -O2 -Winline -I/usr/local-
>ssl3.4/include -I/usr/coreutils/include
-I/usr/tandem/xml/T0625L01_AAE/include"
>LDFLAGS="/usr/coreutils/lib/libz.a
>-L/usr/local-ssl3.4/lib -L/usr/coreutils/lib
-L/usr/tandem/xml/T0625L01_AAE/lib"
>TEST_LINT= SHELL=/usr/coreutils/bin/bash
>
>The results are:
>*** t0000-basic.sh ***
>error: cannot run git init
>Makefile:77: recipe for target 't0000-basic.sh' failed
>make[2]: *** [t0000-basic.sh] Error 1
>*** t0001-init.sh ***
>error: cannot run git init
>Makefile:77: recipe for target 't0001-init.sh' failed
>make[2]: *** [t0001-init.sh] Error 1
>*** t0002-gitfile.sh ***
>error: cannot run git init
>Makefile:77: recipe for target 't0002-gitfile.sh' failed
>make[2]: *** [t0002-gitfile.sh] Error 1
>etc for all tests.
>
>Removing GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_REF_FORMAT=reftable allows the whole test suite
to
>pass.
>
>There are environment size limits (about 32Kb) in bash on the box, so it is
possible a
>boundary was crossed internal to the test setup.

I did find this, in t0000-basic:
not ok 69 - init with GIT_DEFAULT_REF_FORMAT=reftable
but have no more details. When should I break in gdb to get a backtrace?