Re: automake 1.6 test failures

[Dave Brondsema]

--- Alexandre Duret-Lutz <address@hidden> wrote:
> [Dave, please keep this on the list.]
> 
> >>> "Dave" == Dave Brondsema <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> [...]
> 
>  >> Hmm, which version?
> 
>  Dave> bash 2.05a.0(3)-release (i686-pc-cygwin)
> 
>  Dave> and here's some other info which may be of use
>  Dave> latest cygwin on winXP
>  Dave> gcc 3.0.4
>  Dave> automake cvs tarball
>  Dave> autoconf 2.53
>  Dave> aclocal (GNU automake) 1.6
>  Dave> fgrep (GNU grep) 2.5
>  Dave> perl v5.6.1 built for cygwin-multi
>  Dave> CYGWIN_NT-5.1 DPB2 1.3.10(0.51/3/2) 2002-02-25 11:14
> i686
>  Dave> unknown
> 
> [...]
> 
>  Dave> with CVS, I don't have the previous two errors I had. 
> I now
>  Dave> have just one error (which I didn't have with the
> release
>  Dave> version)
> 
>  Dave> make check VERBOSE=x TESTS='confsub.test'
> 
>  Dave> === Running test ./confsub.test
>  Dave> + cat
>  Dave> + cat
>  Dave> + mkdir subdir
>  Dave> + cat
>  Dave> + echo Before.
>  Dave> + perl ../../aclocal -I
>  Dave> /tmp/automake/automake/tests/testSubDir/../../m4
>  Dave> --acdir=/tmp/automake/automake/tests/../m4
>  Dave> + perl ../../automake
>  Dave> --libdir=/tmp/automake/automake/tests/../lib --foreign
> --Werror
>  Dave> + fgrep subdir/config.h subdir/Makefile.in
>  Dave> + fgrep -v cd $(top_builddir)
>  Dave> + autoconf
>  Dave> + ./configure
>  Dave> checking for a BSD-compatible install...
> /usr/bin/install -c
>  Dave> checking whether build environment is sane... yes
>  Dave> checking for gawk... gawk
>  Dave> checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
>  Dave> configure: creating ./config.status
>  Dave> config.status: creating Makefile
>  Dave> config.status: creating subdir/Makefile
>  Dave> config.status: creating subdir/config.h
>  Dave> + fgrep Before. subdir/config.h
>  Dave> Before.
>  Dave> + sleep 1
>  Dave> + echo After.
>  Dave> + make
>  Dave> Making all in subdir
>  Dave> make[1]: Entering directory
>  Dave> `/tmp/automake/automake/tests/testSubDir/subdir'
>  Dave> make  all-am
>  Dave> make[2]: Entering directory
>  Dave> `/tmp/automake/automake/tests/testSubDir/subdir'
>  Dave> make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
>  Dave> make[2]: Leaving directory
>  Dave> `/tmp/automake/automake/tests/testSubDir/subdir'
>  Dave> make[1]: Leaving directory
>  Dave> `/tmp/automake/automake/tests/testSubDir/subdir'
>  Dave> make[1]: Entering directory
>  Dave> `/tmp/automake/automake/tests/testSubDir'
>  Dave> make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
>  Dave> make[1]: Leaving directory
>  Dave> `/tmp/automake/automake/tests/testSubDir'
>  Dave> + fgrep After. subdir/config.h
>  Dave> + exit 1
>  Dave> FAIL: confsub.test
> 
> I can't see any change between Automake 1.6 and CVS Automake
> that could have caused this.
> 
> However, ISTR that time-stamps have only a 2sec precision on
> some Windows file system.  That could explain why this test 
> sometime fails, and sometime doesn't.  Does this make sense?
> Could you edit confsub.test, change 'sleep 1' to 'sleep 2',
> and
> see if it still fails?
> -- 
> Alexandre Duret-Lutz
> 

That worked.  Thanks!


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Dave Brondsema
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