[Pkg-bitcoin-devel] Bug#672524: Bug#672524: upload of bitcoin package

[Christoph Egger]

Hi all!

Scott Howard <showard314 at gmail.com> writes:
> In summary: i386 and kfreebsd-i386 builds fail on buildd machines.
> They don't fail on other machines, pbuilder chroots, or Ubuntu
> builders. The failure comes from he test suite not being able to find
> a file, but our debugging shows that the file exists and that it is
> attempting to open the correct file.

Not necessarily.

    ifstream ifs(testFile.string().c_str(), ifstream::in);
    Value v;
    if (!read_stream(ifs, v))
    {
        if (ifs.fail())
            BOOST_ERROR("Cound not find/open " << filename);
        else
            BOOST_ERROR("JSON syntax error in " << filename);
        return Array();
    }

The error is printed if the istream signals a fail() *after* parsing the
whole json context. [0] indicates this might just be someone trying to
read an invalid type from the stream (like an int while the next word in
facht is a name). I stopped digging the source after the first few
wrappers around wrappers around wrappers so no further analysis there.

Regards

    Christoph

[0] http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/io/basic_ios/fail