Re: msvc failure in largeobject regression test

No.

I think one option is "fix it in the cvs client". There
are options there to do it if you use cvsnt.

FWIW, if I built off the snapshot tarballs things work, since they have
unix linefeeds.

//Magnus

On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 05:11:41PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> Was this problem addressed?
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 11:39:23AM -0800, Jeremy Drake wrote:
> > > On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 09:31:40AM -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> > > > > Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > > > > >Hi!
> > > > > >
> > > > > >I get failures for the largeobject regression tests on my vc++ build. I
> > > > > >don't think this has ever worked, given that those tests are fairly new.
> > > > > >Any quick ideas on what's wrong before I dig deeper?
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > [snip]
> > > > >
> > > > > I wonder if this is a line-end issue? Assuming you are working from CVS,
> > > > > does your client turn \n into \r\n ? I see that other windows boxes are
> > > > > happily passing this test on the buildfarm, and of course the mingw cvs
> > > > > doesn't adjust line endings.
> > > >
> > > > Bingo!
> > > >
> > > > That's it. I copeid the file in binary mode from a linux box and now it
> > > > passes.
> > >
> > > I thought about that when I wrote it, and thus tried it under mingw and
> > > cygwin without issue ;) I don't think the regression tests were in a
> > > position of running on the msvc build at the time... My thought for what
> > > to do if this did run into a problem would be an alternate output file
> > > that is also acceptable (I don't know what they're called but other tests
> > > have them IIRC).
> >
> > Either that, or we require a checkout using Unix style linefeeds. I've
> > confirmed that removing the file and checking it back out with "cvs --lf
> > update tenk.data" works - tests pass fine.
> >
> > Yet another option might be to flag that file as binary in cvs, in which
> > case I think cvsnt shouldn't go mess with it.
> >
> > //Magnus
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