Re: [GNU Autoconf 2.64] testsuite: 180 failed

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello KATO,

* KATO wrote on Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 05:52:36AM CEST:
> Hello, here is 'make check' failed-report on 08/10/2009 11:00 JST.
> I hope this report will be useful to repair.

Thanks for your bug report, and sorry for the delay.

> 180. autotest.at:1179: testing ...
> ./autotest.at:1179: autom4te --language=autotest -o micro-suite micro-suite.at
> ./autotest.at:1179: mkfifo fifo || exit 77
> ./autotest.at:1179: ${CONFIG_SHELL-$SHELL} -c '(set -m && set +m) || exit 77'
> stderr:
> ./autotest.at:1179: $CONFIG_SHELL ./micro-suite -j2 1 3
> stdout:
> ## --------------------------------------------------- ##
> ## GNU Nonsense 1.0 test suite: artificial test suite. ##
> ## --------------------------------------------------- ##
> 
>   1: my only test                                    ok
>   3: another test                                    ok
> 
> ## ------------- ##
> ## Test results. ##
> ## ------------- ##
> 
> All 2 tests were successful.
> ./autotest.at:1179: $CONFIG_SHELL ./micro-suite -v -x -j2 1 3
> --- /dev/null   2009-10-08 09:07:20.885757222 +0900
> +++ /usr/local/src/autoconf-2.64/tests/testsuite.dir/at-groups/180/stderr     
>   2009-10-08 11:11:14.000000000 +0900
> @@ -0,0 +1 @@
> +./micro-suite: line 1684: 
> /usr/local/src/autoconf-2.64/tests/testsuite.dir/180/micro-suite.dir/at-job-fifo:
>  Interrupted system call

First off, this failure shouldn't be a problem for you unless you use
the (experimental) parallel Autotest feature.

Your failure looks different from most other reported issues I remember.
Can you find out whether this is an intermittend error or happens every
time?  You can run this test only, verbosely, with something like
  make check TESTSUITEFLAGS='-v -d -x -k "parallel syntax error"'

Also, since 2.64 the test has been modified a bit.  If you could try
current git Autoconf (or wait until 2.65 is released and then try that),
it would be interesting to see how that fares, too.

Thanks,
Ralf