Bug 324

Summary:	Regression tests refuse to run under MinGW
Product:	ns-3	Reporter:	Craig Dowell <craigdo>
Component:	regression	Assignee:	ns-bugs <ns-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	mathieu.lacage
Priority:	P3
Version:	ns-3-dev
Hardware:	All
OS:	All

Description Craig Dowell 2008-09-08 17:00:11 UTC

The regression tests (as a whole) refuse to run under MinGW + MSYS 1.0:

The system cannot find the path specified.
bzip2: (stdin) is not a bzip2 file.
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
Entering directory `C:\msys\1.0\home\owner\repos\ns-3-dev\build'
Compilation finished successfully 
========== Running Regression Tests ==========
Retrieving ns-3-dev-ref-traces.tar.bz2 from web.
Done.
Reference traces directory does not exist

Comment 1 Mathieu Lacage 2008-09-08 17:56:04 UTC

I vote to make that not a P1 because mingw is not a platform we support. wouldbenicetofix though.

Comment 2 Mathieu Lacage 2008-09-08 18:11:34 UTC

PATH=$PATH:/c/Python25 

should work

Comment 3 Craig Dowell 2008-09-08 18:29:02 UTC

> PATH=$PATH:/c/Python25 

I had the paths set up already.

The problem revolves around the return code from hg version which wscript uses to see if Mercurial is available.  There is no ns-3-dev-ref-traces.tar.bz2 in the releases directory since ns-3-dev is expected to use hg, so the contents of the tar file is the text of a 404 error.

I can fake the system out by manually cloning the reference traces repo, but then the realtime-udp-echo regression test asserts, and other regression tests report errors.

I am very tired of MinGW.

Comment 4 Mathieu Lacage 2009-06-26 06:29:53 UTC

I believe that this bug is fixed thanks to gustavo