[Rpm-maint] rpm test suite (was: Optimize expandMacro function)

[Alexey Tourbin]

On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 06:38:19AM +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> NAK, something here causes severe breakage in rpmbuild (a pile of
> segfault failures in the test-suite, and its not the above case of
> self-undefining macro as that's not tested currently). For example:
> 
> [pmatilai at localhost rpm]$ ./rpmbuild -ts
> tests/data/SOURCES/hello-2.0.tar.gz
> *** glibc detected *** /home/pmatilai/repos/rpm/.libs/lt-rpmbuild:
> free(): invalid next size (fast): 0x00000000006c4620 ***
> [...]
> Aborted (core dumped)
> [pmatilai at localhost rpm]$
> 
> When submitting patches, please make sure "make check" completes
> without errors. The test-suite is somewhat picky of how rpm is
> ./configure'd so you'll want to get it working with a known-good
> starting point (git master is expected to pass with zero errors at
> all times, or somebody has screwed up) before hacking further. It's
> a bit of a PITA as it takes so long to complete, but its also been a
> life-saver on numerous occasions...

I'm currently not able to set up a known-good starting point (on git
master) - there are failures.  Is there a way to run tests individually
and in kind of a verbose mode - i.e. with commands being run and
actual/expected output?