Re: acloca20 test intermittent failure

[Greg Schafer]

On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 08:51:11AM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:

> Out of curiosity: how fast is this machine, how many and what kind of
> CPUs does it have?

Reasonably fast. 1 x AMD Athlon64 X2 4200+ (dual core).

> Could you please show the time stamps when the failure happens.  Like
> this (in the tests subdirectory of the build tree):
> 
> $ while make check VERBOSE=x TESTS=acloca20.test; do :; done
> $ ls -lart --time-style=full-iso testSubDir testSubDir/autom4te.cache

$ ls -lart --time-style=full-iso testSubDir testSubDir/autom4te.cache
testSubDir/autom4te.cache:
total 292
-rw-r--r-- 1 pkgmgr pkgmgr 10126 2006-10-20 07:27:36.000000000 +1000 traces.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 pkgmgr pkgmgr 10072 2006-10-20 07:27:36.000000000 +1000 traces.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 pkgmgr pkgmgr 10072 2006-10-20 07:27:36.000000000 +1000 traces.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 pkgmgr pkgmgr 17323 2006-10-20 07:27:36.000000000 +1000 requests
-rw-r--r-- 1 pkgmgr pkgmgr 73015 2006-10-20 07:27:36.000000000 +1000 output.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 pkgmgr pkgmgr 73015 2006-10-20 07:27:36.000000000 +1000 output.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 pkgmgr pkgmgr 73000 2006-10-20 07:27:36.000000000 +1000 output.0
drwxr-xr-x 2 pkgmgr pkgmgr  4096 2006-10-20 07:27:36.000000000 +1000 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 pkgmgr pkgmgr  4096 2006-10-20 07:27:37.000000000 +1000 ..

testSubDir:
total 196
-rwxr-xr-x 1 pkgmgr pkgmgr 11135 2006-10-20 07:27:35.000000000 +1000 missing
-rwxr-xr-x 1 pkgmgr pkgmgr 13184 2006-10-20 07:27:35.000000000 +1000 install-sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 pkgmgr pkgmgr    35 2006-10-20 07:27:35.000000000 +1000 foo.m4
-rw-r--r-- 1 pkgmgr pkgmgr    25 2006-10-20 07:27:35.000000000 +1000 doit.in
-rwxr-xr-x 1 pkgmgr pkgmgr 17574 2006-10-20 07:27:35.000000000 +1000 depcomp
drwxr-xr-x 3 pkgmgr pkgmgr 16384 2006-10-20 07:27:35.000000000 +1000 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 pkgmgr pkgmgr    95 2006-10-20 07:27:36.000000000 +1000 
configure.in
-rwxr-xr-x 1 pkgmgr pkgmgr 72674 2006-10-20 07:27:36.000000000 +1000 configure
drwxr-xr-x 2 pkgmgr pkgmgr  4096 2006-10-20 07:27:36.000000000 +1000 
autom4te.cache
-rw-r--r-- 1 pkgmgr pkgmgr   612 2006-10-20 07:27:36.000000000 +1000 aclocal.m4
-rw-r--r-- 1 pkgmgr pkgmgr    35 2006-10-20 07:27:36.000000000 +1000 
acinclude.m4
-rwxr-xr-x 1 pkgmgr pkgmgr    24 2006-10-20 07:27:37.000000000 +1000 doit
-rwxr-xr-x 1 pkgmgr pkgmgr 20197 2006-10-20 07:27:37.000000000 +1000 
config.status
-rw-r--r-- 1 pkgmgr pkgmgr  3340 2006-10-20 07:27:37.000000000 +1000 config.log
drwxr-xr-x 3 pkgmgr pkgmgr  4096 2006-10-20 07:27:37.000000000 +1000 .

> My assumption is that the second run of autoconf happens within the same
> second as the first; if that is true, then the patch below should fix
> this.  Could you try it?

The patch helps a little because the failures seem to happen less often but
unfortunately they do still occur :-(

Regards
Greg