On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 10:48:10AM +0100, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote: > Hello Ralf, > > On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 10:01:09AM +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > * Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote on Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 12:02:21AM CEST: > > > sorry to provide this little information, but building automake 1.11.1 > > > on mips linux n32 today failed to me in a single test: > > > parallel-tests5.test > > > > cd tests > > (ulimit -t 300; sh -c 'while make check TESTS=parallel-tests5.test; do :; > > done') > > echo $? > I will let the loop run for long. > > > > Which make implementation and version do you use? Which distro is this? > > It's NixOS. > gnu make 3.82.
After many retries, the test failed again. The part of the log about the failure says: ...... gcc -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"parallel-tests5\" -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"parallel-tests5\" -DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"1.0\" -DPACKAGE_STRING=\"parallel-tests5\ 1.0\" -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"\" -DPACKAGE_URL=\"\" -DPACKAGE=\"parallel-tests5\" -DVERSION=\"1.0\" -I. -g -O2 -MT foo4.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/foo4.Tpo -c -o foo4.o foo4.c building foo5.o mv -f .deps/foo2.Tpo .deps/foo2.Po make[2]: vfork: Function not implemented make[2]: *** Deleting file `foo2.o' mv -f .deps/foo4.Tpo .deps/foo4.Po gcc -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"parallel-tests5\" -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"parallel-tests5\" -DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"1.0\" -DPACKAGE_STRING=\"parallel-tests5\ 1.0\" -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"\" -DPACKAGE_URL=\"\" -DPACKAGE=\"parallel-tests5\" -DVERSION=\"1.0\" -I. -g -O2 -MT foo5.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/foo5.Tpo -c -o foo5.o foo5.c ..... PASS: foo2.test PASS: foo3.test PASS: foo1.test PASS: foo4.test building foo6.log building foo7.log building foo8.log PASS: foo5.test PASS: foo6.test PASS: foo7.test PASS: foo8.test building foo1.prog gcc -g -O2 -o foo1.prog foo1.o building foo1.prog.log PASS: foo1.prog make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/nix-build-v732qfq81afcilibmp48al3gqw1avpvz-automake-1.11.1.drv-0/automake-1.11.1/tests/parallel-tests5.dir' make[1]: *** [check-TESTS] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/nix-build-v732qfq81afcilibmp48al3gqw1avpvz-automake-1.11.1.drv-0/automake-1.11.1/tests/parallel-tests5.dir' make: *** [check-am] Error 2 It looks like a 'make' or glibc problem, right? If you want more details of the test results, I have all the files. Request whatever you need. Regards, Lluís.