Re: Failure in test for autoconf-2.50b

[Vin Shelton]

Akim Demaille <address@hidden> writes:
> | I am reporting the following problem discovered when running 'make
> | check' on autoconf-2.50b on my system:
> | 
> | 26: torture.at:90     diff: -: Value too large for defined data type
> | FAILED near `torture.at:163'
> 
> Wow, that's interesting...
> 
> What version of diff are you running?  You seem to be running
> GNU/Linux, but not GNU diff?
> 
> ~/src/ace % strings =diff | grep -i Value
> ~/src/ace %
> 
> Maybe it is not diff that failed... Could you try to run
> 
>         sh -x ./testsuite 26 >test.log 2>&1
> 
> and send test.log?  Unless you know how to track the actual failure.

I am running GNU diff, BTW.

  strings =diff | grep -i Value

yields nothing, as in your case.  I don't know where the error came from.

>         sh -x ./testsuite 26 >test.log 2>&1
It look like the test passed:

: zion autoconf-2.50b/tests Thu 5 23:06; sh -x ./testsuite 26 >test.log 2>&1
echo $?
: zion autoconf-2.50b/tests Thu 5 23:06; echo $?
0

test.log
Description: test results

In fact 'make check' now passes entirely:

=========================================
All 154 tests were successful (3 skipped)
=========================================

I don't get it.  I'll try a build from scratch to see if that has a
similar failure.  Do you think there's some kind of race condition, or
maybe gamma rays???

I'll let you know if I see the failure again.

  - vin