Re: Git 2.25 and failed self tests on OS X

[Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Feb 3, 2020 at 3:43 AM Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Feb 02, 2020 at 11:08:17PM -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
>
> > I'm seeing some self-tests failures building the 2.25 release tarball
> > on OS X. I'm seeing it on the old PowerMac with OS X 10.5, and a
> > modern Intel Mac with OS X 10.9. PowerMac failures are not too
> > surprising, but the modern Mac should probably pass its self tests.
> >
> > *** t3902-quoted.sh ***
> > not ok 1 - setup
> > #
> > #
> > #               mkdir "$FN" &&
> > #               for_each_name "echo initial >\"\$name\"" &&
> > #               git add . &&
> > #               git commit -q -m Initial &&
> > #
> > #               for_each_name "echo second >\"\$name\"" &&
> > #               git commit -a -m Second &&
> > #
> > #               for_each_name "echo modified >\"\$name\""
>
> It's hard to see what's going on with this output. Try running:
>
>   ./t3902-quoted.sh -v -x -i
>
> to get more verbose output.
>
> Looking at this test, it tries to create files with funny characters in
> the names. Presumably your filesystem isn't happy with one or more of
> them. The verbose output will probably make it clear which.
>
> Version 10.9 isn't incredibly new, but these tests have been around a
> long time. If OS X has a problem with these filenames, it seems odd for
> it to be surfacing now.
>
> Do you know what filesystem you're using? You aren't running the tests
> by any chance on a network mount from a Windows machine?

According to `diskutil info /`, the filesystem is Journaled HFS+. The
tests are running locally on the Mac after logging in over SSH.

I'm wondering if Perl is the problem. I had to cut-over to OpenSSL 1.1
due to deprecation of 1.0.2. OpenSSL 1.1 increased Perl requirements,
so now I have to build Perl, too. Previously I was not building Perl.

I'm installing Perl 5.30.1, but it is a minimal install. I only
install Text::Template Test::More (plus whatever else Perl installs on
its own from cspan). However I could not install HTTP::Daemon
HTTP::Request. There's some bug in the cspan installer. It gets stuck
on one package and tries to download/install it over and over again.

Do you know if Git is using one of Perl's Text:: packages for the test?

Jeff