Re: test-fdutimensat failure

[Ludovic Courtès]

Bernhard Voelker <address@hidden> skribis:

> On 01/11/2014 11:40 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> An i686-linux-gnu build of Coreutils 8.21 with Guix failed like this
>> (see <http://hydra.gnu.org/build/34068/nixlog/1/raw>):
>> 
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> FAIL: test-fdutimensat (exit: 134)
>> ==================================
>> 
>> test-lutimens.h:64: assertion failed
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>> 
>> There’ve been reports of flakiness before, in particular:
>> 
>>   http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2013-04/msg00076.html
>> 
>> What would you recommend to solve the issue?
>
> The reason was a race in gnulib's nap.h which has been fixed with:
>   http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/commit/?id=439b0e925f
>
> For maintaining in a distribution, I'd recommend
> * upgrading to coreutils-8.22, or
> * patching nap.h for the tests to succeed, or
> * skipping the affected tests.

OK, thanks for the info!  We’ll actually upgrade Coreutils.

Ludo’.