Re: openldap-2.3.19 fails test020-proxycache

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Filippo Mesirca wrote:
> Hello Luca, thanks for the reply.
> Actually, something really strange is happening: I tried to re-run the 
> test020, and I saw in files tests/testrun/slapd.*.log that slapd 
> wasn't compiled with the debugging turned on: it was completely 
> normal, since I passed to the configure the --disable-debug option. 
> So, to see what errors are given when running test020, I turned the 
> debugging on, recompiling openldap with the --enable-debug option, and 
> leaving all the other options untouched... I ran the test020 for the 
> n-th time and I saw that the test had successfully passed!!!
>
> In sum: compiling openldap with --disable-debug gets test020 to 
> fail... compiling openldap with --enable-debug gets all the tests 
> (included test020) to pass....
>
> What's happening? I think that enabling or disabling the debug 
> shouldn't affect the tests and the program behaviour in any way...
The test script parses the debug output to discover if the caching 
features worked. With --disable-debug, there's no way to tell, so the 
script fails. The actual program functionality is unaffected either way.

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