Re: bug#8365: 3 of 657 tests failed

On Saturday 02 April 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sat, Apr 02, 2011 at 10:33:19AM CEST: > > On Friday 01 April 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > > Well, the 'date' options are not so portable, see the Autoconf manual. > > > I wouldn't fix anything until I see a failure

Re: bug#8365: 3 of 657 tests failed

* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sat, Apr 02, 2011 at 10:33:19AM CEST: > On Friday 01 April 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > Well, the 'date' options are not so portable, see the Autoconf manual. > > I wouldn't fix anything until I see a failure in the wild. > > > Still, I might have managed to tweak t

Re: bug#8365: 3 of 657 tests failed

On Friday 01 April 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 06:50:12PM CEST: > > On Friday 01 April 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > > > tests/remake-bug8365.test | 99 > > > > + > > > > > > and the name of the

Re: bug#8365: 3 of 657 tests failed

* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 06:50:12PM CEST: > On Friday 01 April 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > > tests/remake-bug8365.test | 99 > > > + > > > > and the name of the new test is inconsistent. I suggest either > > pr8365.test

Re: bug#8365: 3 of 657 tests failed

On Friday 01 April 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 01:09:41PM CEST: > > In the end, I'm OK with your proposal of adding a sleep to the > > failing tests, but I'd also like to add an (xfailing) testcase > > to expose the issue we have dig up with big

Re: bug#8365: 3 of 657 tests failed

* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 01:09:41PM CEST: > In the end, I'm OK with your proposal of adding a sleep to the > failing tests, but I'd also like to add an (xfailing) testcase > to expose the issue we have dig up with big efforts. This is > what I've done in the attached patch

Re: bug#8365: 3 of 657 tests failed

On Friday 01 April 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 02:54:36PM CEST: > > At this point I'm not anymore sure this is just a testsuite-related issue > > -- it seems like a genuine bug in Automake-generated remake rules. WDYT? > > No. You were right o

Re: bug#8365: 3 of 657 tests failed

On Wednesday 30 March 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 06:10:23PM CEST: > > Now, why is configure not re-run? Here is my (longish) tentative > > explanation, > > step by step. In what follows, I'll use the abbraviation `TS(f)' to indicate > > the ti

Re: bug#8365: 3 of 657 tests failed

* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 06:10:23PM CEST: > Now, why is configure not re-run? Here is my (longish) tentative explanation, > step by step. In what follows, I'll use the abbraviation `TS(f)' to indicate > the timestamp (i.e. last modification time) of the file `f'. > > 01.

Re: bug#8365: 3 of 657 tests failed

> * Stefano Lattarini [2011-03-30 18:10:23 +0200]: > > Reference: > > > Hi Sam, and thanks for the report. you are welcome. > Sam, have you by chance kept the content of the *.dir directories for > the failed tests? If yes, could you please

Re: bug#8365: 3 of 657 tests failed

On Wednesday 30 March 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Hi Stefano, > > * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 06:47:20PM CEST: > > --- a/tests/aclocal6.test > > +++ b/tests/aclocal6.test > > > @@ -57,6 +57,8 @@ cd build > > ../configure > > $MAKE > > > > +# Modified configure depende

Re: bug#8365: 3 of 657 tests failed

* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 06:59:07PM CEST: > * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 06:47:20PM CEST: > > --- a/tests/subdir5.test > > +++ b/tests/subdir5.test > > > @@ -67,6 +67,8 @@ $MAKE > > # does it in the other way: it updates confiles.m4 (which is m4_include

Re: bug#8365: 3 of 657 tests failed

Hi Stefano, * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 06:47:20PM CEST: > --- a/tests/aclocal6.test > +++ b/tests/aclocal6.test > @@ -57,6 +57,8 @@ cd build > ../configure > $MAKE > > +# Modified configure dependencies must be newer than config.status. > +$sleep > # Update an aclocal.

Re: bug#8365: 3 of 657 tests failed

And the diagnosis for the failure of subdir5.test seems very similar. (In fact, it would have been much simpler to start by analyzing this failure, since it is a much simplified version of the aclocal6.test failure; but shame on me, I just proceded in alphabetical order w.r.t. the test names!) Wh

Re: bug#8365: 3 of 657 tests failed

Reference: Hi Sam, and thanks for the report. > FAIL: aclocal6.test (exit: 1) > = > > /home/sds/src/automake-1.11.1/tests:/home/sds/src/top/bin:/usr/lib6 > 4/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bi