Ruby bindings failing ValueCountMatchSpy test

[Charlie Hull]

I'm getting a test failure as follows, both in SVN trunk and in 1.2.0:

Loaded suite smoketest
Started
...............E..
Finished in 0.015 seconds.

  1) Error:
test_015_valuecount_matchspy(XapianSmoketest):
NameError: uninitialized constant Xapian::ValueCountMatchSpy
    smoketest.rb:213:in `test_015_valuecount_matchspy'

18 tests, 39 assertions, 0 failures, 1 errors
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'c:\Ruby\bin\ruby.exe' : return code '0x1'
Stop.

[Olly Betts]

This works with the Xapian build system, so I don't have any good ideas.

[Olly Betts]

Are you still seeing this? I wondered if it might be due to stale generated sources, like that more recent issue.

[Charlie Hull]

Yes, still seeing it with generated sources from a recent snapshot.

[Olly Betts]

What Ruby version is this with (assuming you still see it with the latest 1.2.x release)?

[Olly Betts]

Looking at this again, I notice you aren't passing -I. in the DOTEST target in win32_bindings_ruby.mak, which is needed so that ruby will look for xapian.rb and _xapian.so in the current directory.

This:

        "$(RUBY_EXE)" smoketest.rb

should be:

        "$(RUBY_EXE)" -I. smoketest.rb

That issue alone should result in an error at require 'xapian', but my suspicion is that you have an older version of the ruby bindings installed somewhere such that ruby is using that instead, and this older version lacks the code which wraps Xapian::ValueCountMatchSpy, hence the test fails.

[Olly Betts]

I applied the fix from comment:5 more than 2 years ago in 4d92b56bdc0061211f39bb54e44d58803badff96 (somewhere between 1.3.2 and 1.3.3). It seems like the obvious fix to me, so in the absence of any feedback for more than 3 years I'm going to close this.

[Olly Betts]

Oh and this was backported to the 1.2 branch in 8644ba3cbb8b18e876774523a4383df84afd4eac before 1.2.20.