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

[Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>]

On 16/08/2024 18.21, Alex Bennée wrote:
> Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> writes:
> 
>> 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
> 
> Should we create an issue in the tracker to make it more visible for
> potential windows hackers?

The only two I am aware of are already on CC: ... so not sure whether it's 
worth the effort...?

  Thomas