Windows problems: moratorium continues

[Robert Goldman]

On 9/14/16 Sep 14 -12:08 PM, Faré wrote:
> Hopefully, my branch fixes test-force on Windows as well as on Linux.

I'm not sure I understand.  In my experience, test-force is *only*
broken on Windows, so there is nothing to be fixed on Linux (or Mac).

I'll try seeing if merging your patch fixes things on Windows.  Is it
tested on Linux?



> 
> I wouldn't worry too much about test-force until the current development
> is complete. It's a release blocker, but not an otherwise worrisome deal
> since it's new tests for a recently discovered issue that we now
> understand how to improve upon without breaking other features, thanks
> to Daniel Kochmanski's patient work.
> 
> -#f
> 
> 
> On Wed, Sep 14, 2016, 12:50 Robert Goldman <rpgoldman at sift.net
> <mailto:rpgoldman at sift.net>> wrote:
> 
>     On 9/14/16 Sep 14 -9:07 AM, Faré wrote:
>     > Sorry, it's my bad for checking in bad code in master (that I fixed
>     > later on, but too late).
>     >
>     > What's failing at head on which implementations, already? Can you
>     > publish logs?
> 
>     Allegro (all flavors), CCL, SBCL, and ECL-bytecodes (note that I don't
>     have the toolchain to run ECL non-bytecodes on windows) all fail
>     test-force, and all fail in the same way:
> 
>     SBCL:
> 
>     Check that require-system of touched .asd will reload the asdf.
>     (That's what it does now, but if it could be fixed that'd be nice.)
>     While evaluating the form starting at line 96, column 0
>       of #P"F:/asdf/test/test-force.script":
>     TEST ABORTED: These two expressions fail comparison with EQUAL:
>      (ASYMVAL :*TIMES-LOADED* :TEST-ASDF-SYSTEM) evaluates to 1
>      2 evaluates to 2
> 
>     CCL:
>     Check that require-system of touched .asd will reload the asdf.
>     (That's what it does now, but if it could be fixed that'd be nice.)
>     TEST ABORTED: These two expressions fail comparison with EQUAL:
>      (ASYMVAL :*TIMES-LOADED* :TEST-ASDF-SYSTEM) evaluates to 1
>      2 evaluates to 2
> 
> 
>     ECL and Allegro same.  Backtraces useless because the action seems to be
>     in either how REQUIRE-SYSTEM is detecting the need to reload or in how
>     TOUCH-FILE and GET-FILE-STAMP are working on Windows, and those aren't
>     on the stack when the assertion fails.
> 
>     Cheers,
>     r
> 
>