msautotest issues on Windows

[Umberto Nicoletti]

What about using pdiff (http://pdiff.sourceforge.net/) or something
similar to compare the images?
It will save you lots of time and it will make msautotest *much* easier to run.

Umberto

On 8/20/07, Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com> wrote:
> Tamas Szekeres wrote:
> > Developers,
> >
> > As I've noted before all of the the 3 msautotest suite suffer for some
> > or more failures on Windows with the latest SVN version. We have now 3
> > different builders on the Windows platform on the buildbot
> > configuration at http://buildbot.osgeo.org:8504/
> >
> > One of them produces real WIN64 images (the dependent libraries have
> > also been compiled for x64). This one is the winner in producing the
> > failures ;-)
> >
> > I would suggest at least to identify whether these failures are
> > expected or not before issuing the first RC. If we expect different
> > results of different platforms then we should split up the tests
> > accordingly.
> >
> > The resulting files on the Windows builders can now be inspected by
> > clicking on the Browse files link at the property page of the
> > builders.
>
> Tamas,
>
> If you can zip up the msautotest tree for one or more of these cases,
> I can do a visual inspection.  I have an OpenEV "tool" that makes it fairly
> easy for me to step through the failures and compare the images.  But
> pulling files 1 by 1 by http doesn't seem like much fun.
>
> It is unfortunate but floating point differences between different
> builds results in differences in results.  On Linux I find 32bit vs.
> 64bit is different and 32bit optimized is different than 32bit debug.
> The differences are all pretty subtle though.
>
> The "gdal" and "misc" test sets all pass with the "msx fgs" optimized
> builds on linux which I've been using as my reference platform.
>
> Best regards,
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