[tahoe-dev] Windwos installation problems

[Zooko O'Whielacronx]

On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 5:58 AM, Black Dew<blackdew at gmail.com> wrote:
> With this and my problem with libpython26.a solved (which turned out
> to be because i was using ActiveState distribution of python but
> following documentation for the python.org distribution) i can do a
> full build of tahoe+dependencies for python 2.6 with mingw both from
> the last realease and current code from darcs.

Yay!

> I've also ran the tests after building from darcs, most was
> successful, except for 3 tests related to the recent epoch changes,
> full log here:
> http://testgrid.allmydata.org:3567/file/URI%3ACHK%3Aeh4c2m2ibay56ges5d5ajtzu5a%3Ah64jk2eraeat5j52umzvfy3sta6erngahulng4kperqe3cvhmndq%3A3%3A10%3A63995/@@named=/tahoe-r3913-tests.txt

One of them is new to me and I've ticketed it: #735.  The other ones
look like we can't call Python's time.mktime(), passing the beginning
of January 1, 1970 as the argument, on your Windows machine.
Interesting, we can on our Windows buildslave.  Maybe this is actually
an effect of the library juggling you had to do with regard to the
symbol for "time()".  In any case our unit tests don't really need to
go back in time that far in order to make sure that the conversion is
accurate. Perhaps you could experiment and tell us if the conversion
is accurate for *any* dates?  Hm, actually if your time() function is
screwed up then this could explain #735 as well.  Hm, #735 says that
the answer your system computes for "How many seconds after the epoch
was the first second of 2009-03-18 UTC?" is 7200 seconds less than the
right answer.  Strange!

> Well, the computers where i could install a buildbot are not online
> 24/7 and have a crap internet connection, if that is ok i can set up a
> build bot to build with mingw (and maybe a debian unstable one too,
> saw you mention it on the 1.5.0 thread)

Yes please!  Any or all of those would be great!

Regards,

Zooko

tickets mentioned in this email:

http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/ticket/735 # time_format.parse_date()
test failure