new bridgetest failures in 7.6 on ppc64le

[Dan Horák]

On Thu, 31 Aug 2023 10:21:05 +0200
Dan Horák <dan at danny.cz> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I am working with the Fedora LibreOffice team on keeping LO building on
> ppc64le and s390x platforms and we found some new test failures during the
> rebase to 7.6. This is the first of them.
> 
> ...
> [CXX] vcl/qa/cppunit/GraphicTest.cxx
> [CXX] vcl/qa/cppunit/GraphicDescriptorTest.cxx
> two floats struct test failed
> four floats struct test failed
> standard test failed
> exception occurred: error: test failed! at /home/sharkcz/projects/libreoffice/testtools/source/bridgetest/bridgetest.cxx:1268
> 
> > error: error: test failed! at /home/sharkcz/projects/libreoffice/testtools/source/bridgetest/bridgetest.cxx:1268
> > dying...make[1]: *** [/home/sharkcz/projects/libreoffice/testtools/CustomTarget_uno_test.mk:26: /home/sharkcz/projects/libreoffice/workdir/CustomTarget/testtools/uno_test.done] Error 1
> make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> 
> 
> I have tracked it down to
> https://git.libreoffice.org/core/+/32c845cb4389aba9430ce471b04f2891f5ff630d%5E%21/
> So I guess it possibly uncovered a real issue somewhere else.
> 
> Seems the TwoFloat/FourFloat checks from
> https://git.libreoffice.org/core/+/refs/heads/master/testtools/source/bridgetest/bridgetest.cxx#472
> are called twice during "make unitcheck" and the second run returns
> garbage in the second (and third/fourth?) member. Any pointers where to
> look further or any help on resolving it would be appreciated.

and before the mentioned commit the check is run only once. Doesn't it
mean the Java bridge is broken for ppc64le, because it now runs the
Java test as well?


		Dan