Re: Failure on test parallel-tests5.test

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Lluís,

thanks for the bug report.

* 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
> 
> I don't have the log for that, because I had set in the build system
> to remove the source directory in case of failure.
> 
> I've built automake 1.11.1 many times in that system, and
> parallel-tests5.test failed only once. I cannot reproduce it anymore.

Hmm, interesting.  I've looked at the test sources and cannot find a
reason why it should fail.  One thing you could do to try to provoke the
failure would be running this test in a loop until it fails, and then
send the parallel-tests5.log file.

cd tests
(ulimit -t 300; sh -c 'while make check TESTS=parallel-tests5.test; do :; done')
echo $?

Which make implementation and version do you use?  Which distro is this?

Thanks,
Ralf