[ http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.automake.bugs/5061 ]
* Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote on Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 05:49:00PM CET: > On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 10:48:10AM +0100, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 10:01:09AM +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > > (ulimit -t 300; sh -c 'while make check TESTS=parallel-tests5.test; do :; > > > done') > > > 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' Interesting. [...] > 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? It looks like a NixOS or a 'make' problem. Can you report this to the NixOS developers to see if they have any input on it? Hmm, lemme see; Ludovic, are you the right person to ask on this? Thanks, Ralf