I think the following patch might fix the build failures on Debian. The idea is to kill the test before the build process kills the whole build.
Let me know if you'd like me to prepare an upload of 0.5+this-patch.
>From a060745745d82dc9531ed456428420f26ad2833b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Bremner <brem...@unb.ca> Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 22:00:47 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] tests: Add optional use of timeout utility, if present. Add to emacs tests. The goal here is to treat a hung test as a failure. The emacs test for sending mail is known to be problematic on the debian autobuilders. This is both a bandaid fix for that, and a sensible long term feature. Currently a fixed timeout of 5 minutes is used. --- test/test-lib.sh | 10 +++++++++- 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/test/test-lib.sh b/test/test-lib.sh index 418eaa7..639e6ae 100644 --- a/test/test-lib.sh +++ b/test/test-lib.sh @@ -793,7 +793,7 @@ emacs \$BATCH --no-init-file --no-site-file \ --eval "(progn (set-frame-width (window-frame (get-buffer-window)) 80) \$@)" EOF chmod a+x ./run_emacs - ./run_emacs "$@" + $TEST_TIMEOUT_CMD ./run_emacs "$@" } @@ -986,3 +986,11 @@ test -z "$NO_PYTHON" && test_set_prereq PYTHON # test whether the filesystem supports symbolic links ln -s x y 2>/dev/null && test -h y 2>/dev/null && test_set_prereq SYMLINKS rm -f y + +# test for timeout utility +if command -v timeout >/dev/null; then + TEST_TIMEOUT_CMD="timeout 5m " +else + TEST_TIMEOUT_CMD="" +fi +echo $TEST_TIMEOUT_CMD \ No newline at end of file -- 1.7.2.3
