Re: [ns] validation problem

[Padmaparna Haldar <haldar@ISI.EDU>]

> > On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, program wrote:
> >
> > > I have downloaded the "ns-allinone-2.1b7a" file from the ns website in order to install it in SOLARIS 2.6. When i ran the ./validation script, it gave me failed error message. It compiles but it fails in some validation tests.
> > > The output from the validation is :
> > >     Validation overall reports : some tests failed
> > >             ./test-all-webcache
> > >     to re-run a specific test, cd tc;/test;../../ns test-all-TEST-NAME
> > >

> Test output differs from reference output
> Diagnose with: diff test-output-webcache/ottl-PBtr.test
> test-output-webcache/ottl-PBtr
> Or see URL "http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/ns/ns-problems.html".
> [..]

> validate overall report: some tests failed:
>      ./test-all-webcache
> to re-run a specific test, cd tcl/test; ../../ns test-all-TEST-NAME
> Notice that some tests in webcache will fail on freebsd when -O is
> turned on.
> This is due to some event reordering, which will disappear when -g is
> turned on.
>

Even though you mention yr system to be solaris, did you try using -g
flag [see hint at end of validation result]. recently somebody using
linux faced the same problem that went away on turning on -g.

--Padma.

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Padmaparna Haldar