Re: [GNU Autoconf 2.68] testsuite: 205 failed

[Ralf Corsepius]

 On 09/23/2010 07:03 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Hello Ralf,
>
> thanks for the bug report.
>
> * Ralf Corsepius wrote on Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 06:31:47AM CEST:
> > autoconf-2.68's testsuite deterministically fails for me in test 205
> > for a variety of OSes:
> >
> > ...
> > 205: parallel autotest and signal handling           FAILED
> > (autotest.at:1617)
> Yeah, it's the test that is broken, not Autotest.  The bug is known.
> Sorry, I didn't manage to get it fixed in time for 2.68.
Thanks. This is what I had assume and wanted to hear ;)

I am going to temporarily disable this check.

> FWIW, the test wrongly assumes that the output crosses a pipe buffer
> boundary and thus elicits a SIGPIPE, which is simply not true on some
> systems.
Some? It fails on all Linux distros, I've tried ;)

Ralf