[Buildbot-devel] 10 errors running unittests GNU/Debian Linux PowerPC

[Brian Warner]

> I just tried to install buildbot on my PowerBook and got 10 errors while 
> running the tests.

The particular failure you copied should have been a [SKIPPED], because the
test could not find a copy of subversion to use. All of the version-control
tests in test_vc.py will check to see if their vc system is installed, and
will be skipped if not. The fact that this showed up as a Failure instead of
a SkipTest is weird.. what version of Twisted are you running? And you're
using buildbot-0.7.2, right? Also, what does the last line of the test output
say? It should count up the tests for you.. are these being counted as skips
or as failures?

I've seen three other failures under PPC/OS-X, but I think they are OS-X
specific and not PPC specific. (the failure is an IOError in some of the
tests which spawn a child process.. I don't think the failures affect normal
operation, though).

Feel free to send me the output of your test run, along with a copy of
_trial_temp/test.log . I'll see if I can figure out why the skips are being
counted as failures.

thanks,
 -Brian