[phobos] Mac OS X unit tests failing

Jacob Carlborg doob at me.com
Sat Jul 30 01:51:25 PDT 2011


Line 1821 in std.file, shouldn't it be "buffer.ptr" instead of just "buffer"?

On 30 jul 2011, at 10:22, David Nadlinger wrote:

> I am not sure why they were added in the first place (couldn't find anything during a quick look at the commit logs and mailing list archives), but the problem were some OS X special cases in the code, namely using stat64() instead of lstat64().
> 
> I opened pull request 160 (https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/160) to fix that – if there was a reason I missed for not using lstat() on OS X or not running the other unit tests, please disregard it.
> 
> David
> 
> 
> On 7/30/11 9:10 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> For some reason, the unit tests on Mac OS X are failing for std.file.symlink.
>> They pass just fine on Linux and FreeBSD, but the the Mac isn't so happy with
>> them.
>> 
>> http://d.puremagic.com/test-results/
>> 
>> Does anyone with a Mac have time to look at it? It tries to create a symlink
>> to /usr/include and verify that it worked, and it claims that the file exists
>> after calling symlink, but it also claims that it's not a symlink (hence the
>> failure). I have no access to a Mac, and so I can't do anything to fix it. We
>> can disable to the failing unit tests if we have to, but we should really fix
>> the issue rather than hiding the failing tests.
>> 
>> - Jonathan M Davis
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