Compact tests fail on Win32 for Flint database

[Charlie Hull]

Full test log attached. No other tests fail (i.e. on the other databases)

Running test: compactnorenumber1...The system cannot find the path specified.
 DatabaseOpeningError: Couldn't detect type of database
Running test: compactmerge1...The system cannot find the path specified.
 DatabaseOpeningError: Couldn't detect type of database
Running test: compactmultichunks1...The system cannot find the path specified.
 DatabaseOpeningError: Couldn't detect type of database

[Charlie Hull]

Test log

[Richard Boulton]

It's probably a problem with the .exe extension. eg, in api_compact.cc line 118 we have:

    string cmd = "../bin/xapian-compact >/dev/null 2>&1 --no-renumber ";

Try adding a .exe to that, and see if it works.

We'll probably need to do something a bit more clever to find the paths.

[Charlie Hull]

Patch to make xapian-compact tests work on Windows

[Olly Betts]

Thanks, marking for 1.1.4.

[Olly Betts]

Lack of .exe isn't an issue - you definitely can run binaries without an explicit extension.

Added a new compatibility wrapper for sys/wait.h (so we can manage the WEXITSTATUS replacement in a a single place) in r13936, and patched api_compact.cc in r13937.

I reused the XAPIAN_BIN_PATH define we already had rather than duplicating that knowledge here, and I also redirected stderr to nul (with 2>nul which I believe is the right rune). Can you test current trunk?

Needs backporting, so updating milestone.

[Charlie Hull]

Trunk builds, but unfortunately xapian-compact is crashing when used during test "compactnorenumber1". The following command line is used:

xapian-compact --no-renumber .flint/dbcompactnorenumber1a .flint/dbcompactnorenumber1c .flint/dbwcompactnorenumberout

and it's causing a problem at line 388 of xapian-compact.cc as 'vector subscript out of range'. I have a debug build in the Visual C++ 2008 GUI and the debugger reports:

• j,n are zero
• used_ranges contains two pairs of ints (5, 1027 and 1028, 1040)
• used_ranges_ is empty

Not at all sure what's going on here!

[Charlie Hull]

Apologies, Trac has eaten some of the formatting above.

xapian-compact --no-renumber .flint/db__compactnorenumber1a .flint/db__compactnorenumber1c .flint/dbw__compactnorenumberout

is the correct command line used.

[Olly Betts]

OK, this issue should be fixed by r13954. That code is new on trunk, so nothing to backport.

[Charlie Hull]

Verified as fixed in trunk.

[Olly Betts]

OK, backported to 1.0 branch in r13962.

Leaving ticket open until this has actually been tested.

[Charlie Hull]

Tested on the 1.0 branch, closed.