Re: [PATCH] .gitlab-ci.d/windows.yml: Disable the qtests in the MSYS2 job

[Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>]

On 16/08/2024 19.18, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> On 16/8/24 18:40, Thomas Huth wrote:
>> On 16/08/2024 18.34, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
>>> On 16/8/24 17:37, Thomas Huth wrote:
>>>> The qtests are broken since a while in the MSYS2 job in the gitlab-CI,
>>>> likely due to some changes in the MSYS2 environment. So far nobody has
>>>> neither a clue what's going wrong here, nor an idea how to fix this
>>>> (in fact most QEMU developers even don't have a Windows environment
>>>> available for properly analyzing this problem), so let's disable the
>>>> qtests here again to get at least the test coverage for the compilation
>>>> and unit tests back to the CI.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>   .gitlab-ci.d/windows.yml | 2 ++
>>>>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.d/windows.yml b/.gitlab-ci.d/windows.yml
>>>> index a83f23a786..9f3112f010 100644
>>>> --- a/.gitlab-ci.d/windows.yml
>>>> +++ b/.gitlab-ci.d/windows.yml
>>>> @@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ msys2-64bit:
>>>>       # for this job, because otherwise the build could not complete within
>>>>       # the project timeout.
>>>>       CONFIGURE_ARGS:  --target-list=sparc-softmmu 
>>>> --without-default-devices -Ddebug=false -Doptimization=0
>>>> +    # The qtests are broken in the msys2 job on gitlab, so disable them:
>>>> +    TEST_ARGS: --no-suite qtest
>>>
>>> Then building system emulation is pointless, isn't it?
>>
>> We're still running the unit tests and some others.
> 
> I tried to configure with '--disable-system' and the same tests
> are run

... but you lose *compile-testing* of all of the system files, so what's 
your point? ... sorry, I don't get it?

  Thomas