Re: Failed test on Solaris 8 Sparc

[Simon Josefsson]

(moving this to gnulib)

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:

> Simon Josefsson wrote:
>> >>>>>> Unconnected socket test... passed
>> >>>>>> Connected sockets test... failed (expecting POLLHUP after shutdown)
>> >>>>>> General socket test with fork... failed (expecting POLLHUP after
>> >>>>>> shutdown)
>> >>>>>> FAIL: test-poll
>> ...
>> we'll use the latest gnulib and hopefully this problem has been resolved
>
> No, no one has been working on the 'poll' test for 3 years. I still see this
> failure regularly on many platforms.

Sigh.  Have we considered disabling the part of the test that doesn't
seem to work reliable, pending that someone take a look at it?

I sympathise with the preference to have the test fail in order to not
forget about the problem, but I think this may have passed the point
where it is counter productive since it causes confusion among users
(this was not the first time I've seen this reported).  I wouldn't be
surprised if someone just disables running 'make check' when something
like this happens.

Alternatively, print "BUG: Please debug this" and exit(77) to have the
test be SKIP'ed?

/Simon