Re: New Systemtap-0.8 RPM available for testing on Fedora 8 and Fedora 9

[Mark Wielaard <mjw@redhat.com>]

Hi,

On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 07:24 -0500, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> mjw wrote:
> 
> > [...]
> > I couldn't figure out how to run the tests against the
> > systemtap-testsuite package. Would like to run those to see how things
> > look in the larger picture. How do you run them from the rpm?
> 
> Install systemtap-testsuite rpm.  cd /usr/share/systemtap*/testsuite.
> make *check.

Doh. That was too easy. Should have figured that out myself.
Results of sudo make installcheck look good:

Host: Linux dijkstra.wildebeest.org 2.6.27.5-41.fc9.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu
Nov 13 20:29:07 EST 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Snapshot: version 0.8/0.137 non-git sources
Distro: Fedora release 9 (Sulphur)

		=== systemtap Summary ===

# of expected passes		638
# of unexpected failures	11
# of unexpected successes	9
# of expected failures		199
# of known failures		7
# of untested testcases		4
# of unsupported tests		2

Where the failures are:

FAIL: systemtap.examples/process/sig_by_pid build
FAIL: systemtap.examples/process/sig_by_pid run
FAIL: systemtap.examples/process/sig_by_proc build
FAIL: systemtap.examples/process/sig_by_proc run
FAIL: systemtap.examples/process/sigkill build
FAIL: systemtap.examples/process/sigkill run
FAIL: systemtap.examples/process/sigmon build
FAIL: systemtap.examples/process/sigmon run
FAIL: buildok/signal-all-probes.stp
- These are all http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7030
  "signal tapset may be referring to inline functions"
  (which has a patch attached)
FAIL: gtod (200)
- Still need to investigate.
FAIL: 32-bit net1
- This is http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6991
  "accept system call missed on 2.6.27"

I have given it a thumbs up at
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2008-9695
(where I saw Will already posted the above results...)

Cheers,

Mark