Re: [GNU Autoconf 2.66] testsuite: 193 failed

[Ralf Corsépius]

On 07/07/2010 06:58 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> ----- "Ralf Corsépius"<address@hidden>  wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am facing a testsuite failure with autoconf-2.66 :(
> >
> > As requested, please find attached the testsuite.log.
>
> Thanks for the report.  That particular test is known
> to be racy, and fails for me about 20% of the time,
This matches with what I experience.

> and more particularly when my machine is under heavy
> load.
In my case, the only load was the build-job ;-)

>  It may be a bug in bash, rather than in autoconf.
> We'd welcome more help in diagnosing the root cause
> of the race, and any ideas in making the test (or even
> autotest itself) more robust in the face of the race
> that is being triggered.
>
> That said, a failure of test 193 is not fatal to the
> use of autoconf 2.66.
OT, here but my recommendation to Fedora: Like test 199
(which, as I meanwhile experienced, deterministically fails), exclude it 
from being run in Fedora's rpm.

Ralf