-r flag not working in Travis CI

[oreqizer]

https://travis-ci.org/oreqizer/creepx

Somehow tape thinks that -r is meant to be a file. When I tried -r=babel-register, it also complained that it's not a module. It works fine locally, only broken in Travis CI.

Here's the error report:

$ npm run clean && npm test && npm run test:flow && npm run lint && npm run build
> creepx@0.2.0 clean /home/travis/build/oreqizer/creepx
> rimraf es lib
> creepx@0.2.0 test /home/travis/build/oreqizer/creepx
> npm run test:base | faucet
module.js:544
    throw err;
    ^
Error: Cannot find module '/home/travis/build/oreqizer/creepx/-r'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:542:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:472:25)
    at Module.require (module.js:585:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:11:18)
    at /home/travis/build/oreqizer/creepx/node_modules/faucet/node_modules/tape/bin/tape:5:5
    at Array.forEach (<anonymous>)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/travis/build/oreqizer/creepx/node_modules/faucet/node_modules/tape/bin/tape:4:23)
    at Module._compile (module.js:641:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:652:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:560:32)
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! creepx@0.2.0 test:base: `tape -r babel-register 'src/**/__tests__/*.spec.js'`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the creepx@0.2.0 test:base script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.
npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /home/travis/.npm/_logs/2017-11-18T06_53_29_241Z-debug.log

[ljharb]

(-r arg is the proper form, fwiw)

Can you share your travis.yml? It's pretty strange that it wouldn't interpret that properly.

[oreqizer]

language: node_js

node_js:
  - "stable"

script:
  - npm run test:coverage
  - npm run test:flow
  - npm run lint

after_success:
  - bash <(curl -s https://codecov.io/bash)

EDIT

My package.json scripts:

  "scripts": {
    "test": "tape -r babel-register 'src/**/__tests__/*.spec.js'",
    "test:nyan": "npm test | tap-nyan",
    "test:faucet": "npm test | faucet",
    "test:coverage": "nyc --reporter=lcov > coverage.lcov npm test",
    "test:flow": "flow check",
    "lint": "eslint './**/*.js'",
    "build": "gulp build",
    "clean": "rimraf es lib",
    "prepare": "npm run clean && npm test && npm run test:flow && npm run lint && npm run build"
  },

[ljharb]

and presumably you have babel-register in your package.json? If it's installed locally but not actually listed in your dependencies, that would cause it to not be installed in travis, which might mean it's treated as a file path instead.

[oreqizer]

Yes, here's my whole package.json:

https://github.com/oreqizer/creepx/blob/master/package.json

Didn't want to paste the whole thing so it's not bloated here

[snuggs]

HMM @oreqizer @ljharb will reach out to Travis and see what's good.

[ljharb]

ok this is getting a bit chatty; let's please keep the noise to a minimum.

If there's an update about this issue, please post it - if not, please quietly continue pursuing leads in separate channels :-)

[snuggs]

@ljharb please take this over yourself since this seems to annoy you. Respectfully!. I've done all I can do. Do you have access to SSH? If so the ball is in your court. Please and thank you! Merely attempting to take light of a situation that has already taken up far more back and forth than need to be. Good luck with Travis sir. As they have already asked me if there has been any updates on tape's end.

[ljharb]

@snuggs i cant ssh into the build vm of “not my repo”, no. I appreciate your help here, but Github notifications are very noisy already, and light chatter makes it harder for actual work to get done.

If someone could provide a failing test case - that fails in travis-ci consistently - I’m happy to fix it, otherwise I’ll have to close this since it can’t be reproduced.

[oreqizer]

Try to run tape -r babel-register 'src/**/__tests__/*.spec.js' in Travis. This fails in all of my repos that have that script.

[ljharb]

https://travis-ci.org/ljharb/tape/builds/310646335 passes (efbf84c). That's not invoking tape directly, it's invoking node path/to/tape/bin, but I'm not sure how that would be different. I also ran https://travis-ci.org/ljharb/tape/builds/310653043 with babel-register specifically, and it still passes.

I then added a pre-script run of ./bin/tape -r babel-register test/require/a.js and that also passed: https://travis-ci.org/ljharb/tape/builds/310654127