Re: [GNU Autoconf 2.59] testsuite: 69 71 136 146 162 failed

[Paul Eggert]

Michael Eisenstein <address@hidden> writes:

> This left me asking the question why do these two tests expect there
> to be an extra copy of testsuite.log while test 132 AC_PROG_RANLIB
> expects the opposite?

expout is created by the same procedure that creates at-stdout, namely

   ls -1 | sed '/^at-/d;/^state-/d;/^config\./d' | sort

If this procedure is buggy at times for some reason, then it's not
surprising that an extra testsuite.dir will occur sometimes in expout,
and sometimes in at-stdout.

> From what I understand ./testsuite -v -d 136 is instructing the
> testsuite to only run that test in a directory correct?

Yes.

> Based on this I ran each of the tests reporting failure in a
> similiar manner and they reported success. these tests were 132,
> 145, 148, 153.  And yes when I reran the entire test suite test 136
> was not failing.

Sigh.  It's a common problem: turn on debugging and the problem goes away.

> Would it be worthwhile to start from scratch and send you the console
> outputs from the entire process?

I'd rather try a different way to debug.  What happens if you run
"ktrace -f trfile -i make check"?  Assuming that "make check" fails in
the same way, can you look for the trace of the "ls + sed + sort"
command that output testsuite.log twice, to see whether it is "ls", or
"sed", or "sort" that is buggy?