Comment 2 for bug 430749

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Martin Pool (mbp) wrote : Re: [Bug 430749] [NEW] "Failed to load compiled extensions" warning breaks the test suite

2009/9/17 John A Meinel <email address hidden>:

>> We support running without extensions anyway so the test suite should
>> pass without them.
>>
>
> ... probably
>
> I think the bulk of the test suite should pass without extensions.
>
> I'm actually thinking that we should have tests that the extensions are
> loaded and *those tests* should fail if they are not.

What's meant to happen is that the failures are accumulated across the
whole bzr process running selftest, then it generates a warning at the
end which is turned into an error by -Werror. I did test this, but
not on the whole suite and it may be that some tests interfere with
it.

> This bug is still reasonable, as generic tests shouldn't fail as a
> side-effect.

+1

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