Re: testsuite.log for autoconf 2.63 on OS X 10.3.9 Server

[Eric Blake]

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According to Frisch, Lillian Lena on 10/1/2008 5:36 PM:
> Hi guys;
> 
> I ran 'make check', I only received 2 failed tests out of 363
> what filesystem the server uses: Mac Extended (Journaled).

Thanks for the report.  Your file system is still causing the failures.
The summary claims "2 failed (1 expected failure).", but I didn't see the
expected failure anywhere.  That looks like an autotest bug - xfails
aren't logged in testsuite.log.

Meanwhile, for your failed test:

> 250. acgeneral.at:16: testing ...
...
> ./acgeneral.at:16: $at_diff "state-ls.before" "state-ls.after"
> --- /dev/null   Wed Oct  1 17:47:09 2008
> +++ /usr/bin/autoconf-2.63/tests/testsuite.dir/at-groups/250/stdout
> Wed Oct  1 17:47:09 2008
> @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
> +--- state-ls.before    Wed Oct  1 17:47:08 2008
> ++++ state-ls.after     Wed Oct  1 17:47:09 2008
> +@@ -5,4 +5,3 @@
> + configure.ac
> + install-sh
> + testsuite.log
> +-testsuite.log

Notice how this is a diff of two ls calls, and that one of the two listed
testsuite.log twice.  Your filesystem has a bug, in that readdir() can see
files more than once in some circumstances.  Please report that to the
MacOS bug reporting address.  I have no idea if autotest can work around
something like this, other than piping ls output through 'sort -u' or
equivalent.

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             address@hidden
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