Make zig-physics build; 0 tests were running out of 640 - #4
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The manifest was JSON, so nothing had ever compiled. Underneath that: a nonexistent Build field, a silent module-existence guard, pre-0.11 syntax, and a test suite that ran zero of its 640 blocks because every import declaration was unreferenced.
It called zig test directly, bypassing link_libc, so on Linux it saw a compile failure instead of a count and declared the suite empty while the suite was green. A guard measuring with a different instrument than the thing it guards reports on the instrument.
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The state this repository was in
87 source files, 640
testblocks, no workflow of any kind, and amanifest that was not ZON:
That is JSON.
zig buildstopped at line 1, column 7, so no compiler hadever reached a single one of the 87 files.
What was underneath
Fixed in order, each one revealed by fixing the one before it:
.fingerprintZig requires(it proposed the value itself).
b.build_root_path— no such field; it isb.build_root.path. Theline sat inside
if (…) |x| else |_| {}, so had it compiled, a failurewould have been swallowed silently.
build.zig— bothaddModuleresults discarded.addTest— took.root_source_file; since 0.15 it takes.root_module.inline forthat checked whether each file existed and silently skippedthe ones that did not. All nine exist, so it protected nothing; it only
guaranteed that a module going missing would stop being exported without
anybody being told. Declared directly instead.
quantum/e8_integration.zig—extern enum(c_int),export conston types, two-argument@ptrCast(*T, x), and four-argumentexpectApproxEqAbs(f64, …). None of these have existed in the languagesince roughly 0.11.
The part that matters
After all of that,
zig build testpassed — running zero tests:Every domain root says
pub const formulas = @import("formulas.zig");andnothing references it. Zig analyses a top-level declaration only when
something does, so those files were never part of the compilation and their
test blocks did not exist. 640 of them.
Adding one reference per import —
test { _ = formulas; }— changes themeasurement:
The one failure
test "Barbero-Immirzi prediction"failed the moment it could run.quantumProjectioncan only ever return 0.436992, 0.618034 or 1.236068,because
|c[4]| + |c[5]|is 0, 1 or 2 for every E8 root — while the physicalvalue is 0.2375. The only value inside the asserted range is the fallback
branch taken when the projection has no input.
Filed as #3 and marked skipped with a pointer, not deleted and not relaxed:
the assertion is the correct physics and the projection is what has to
change. Fixing it means choosing a mapping, and any mapping I chose would be
fitted to the assertion it had to satisfy.
Not fixed here
src/plasma/has noformulas.zig(#2) — the only domain without one. Itsroot.zigexports nothing buttestValues, which imports the missing file,so the module has never had an implementation. The re-export is commented out
with the reason; writing the formulas from
test_values.zigwould produce amodel that agrees with its own test by construction.
CI
Three steps:
zig build,zig build test, and a guard that fails when fewerthan 200 tests run. The third exists because this repository proves that a
suite running nothing also exits 0.