On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 08:51:11AM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Out of curiosity: how fast is this machine, how many and what kind of > CPUs does it have?
Reasonably fast. 1 x AMD Athlon64 X2 4200+ (dual core). > Could you please show the time stamps when the failure happens. Like > this (in the tests subdirectory of the build tree): > > $ while make check VERBOSE=x TESTS=acloca20.test; do :; done > $ ls -lart --time-style=full-iso testSubDir testSubDir/autom4te.cache $ ls -lart --time-style=full-iso testSubDir testSubDir/autom4te.cache testSubDir/autom4te.cache: total 292 -rw-r--r-- 1 pkgmgr pkgmgr 10126 2006-10-20 07:27:36.000000000 +1000 traces.2 -rw-r--r-- 1 pkgmgr pkgmgr 10072 2006-10-20 07:27:36.000000000 +1000 traces.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 pkgmgr pkgmgr 10072 2006-10-20 07:27:36.000000000 +1000 traces.0 -rw-r--r-- 1 pkgmgr pkgmgr 17323 2006-10-20 07:27:36.000000000 +1000 requests -rw-r--r-- 1 pkgmgr pkgmgr 73015 2006-10-20 07:27:36.000000000 +1000 output.2 -rw-r--r-- 1 pkgmgr pkgmgr 73015 2006-10-20 07:27:36.000000000 +1000 output.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 pkgmgr pkgmgr 73000 2006-10-20 07:27:36.000000000 +1000 output.0 drwxr-xr-x 2 pkgmgr pkgmgr 4096 2006-10-20 07:27:36.000000000 +1000 . drwxr-xr-x 3 pkgmgr pkgmgr 4096 2006-10-20 07:27:37.000000000 +1000 .. testSubDir: total 196 -rwxr-xr-x 1 pkgmgr pkgmgr 11135 2006-10-20 07:27:35.000000000 +1000 missing -rwxr-xr-x 1 pkgmgr pkgmgr 13184 2006-10-20 07:27:35.000000000 +1000 install-sh -rw-r--r-- 1 pkgmgr pkgmgr 35 2006-10-20 07:27:35.000000000 +1000 foo.m4 -rw-r--r-- 1 pkgmgr pkgmgr 25 2006-10-20 07:27:35.000000000 +1000 doit.in -rwxr-xr-x 1 pkgmgr pkgmgr 17574 2006-10-20 07:27:35.000000000 +1000 depcomp drwxr-xr-x 3 pkgmgr pkgmgr 16384 2006-10-20 07:27:35.000000000 +1000 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 pkgmgr pkgmgr 95 2006-10-20 07:27:36.000000000 +1000 configure.in -rwxr-xr-x 1 pkgmgr pkgmgr 72674 2006-10-20 07:27:36.000000000 +1000 configure drwxr-xr-x 2 pkgmgr pkgmgr 4096 2006-10-20 07:27:36.000000000 +1000 autom4te.cache -rw-r--r-- 1 pkgmgr pkgmgr 612 2006-10-20 07:27:36.000000000 +1000 aclocal.m4 -rw-r--r-- 1 pkgmgr pkgmgr 35 2006-10-20 07:27:36.000000000 +1000 acinclude.m4 -rwxr-xr-x 1 pkgmgr pkgmgr 24 2006-10-20 07:27:37.000000000 +1000 doit -rwxr-xr-x 1 pkgmgr pkgmgr 20197 2006-10-20 07:27:37.000000000 +1000 config.status -rw-r--r-- 1 pkgmgr pkgmgr 3340 2006-10-20 07:27:37.000000000 +1000 config.log drwxr-xr-x 3 pkgmgr pkgmgr 4096 2006-10-20 07:27:37.000000000 +1000 . > My assumption is that the second run of autoconf happens within the same > second as the first; if that is true, then the patch below should fix > this. Could you try it? The patch helps a little because the failures seem to happen less often but unfortunately they do still occur :-( Regards Greg