Re: Failure on test parallel-tests5.test

[Lluís Batlle i Rossell]

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.