bug#8788: Weird testsuite failure on NetBSD (parallel tests, background processes)

[Stefano Lattarini]

Hello automakers.

While teststing the `testsuite-work' branch on NetBSD 5, I've encountered
a weird failure in the test `parallel-tests3.test', which actually caused
the whole testsuite to crash (!) due to a stray SIGTERM.

I've reduced the failure to the attached testcase, which expose the bug
also for the older automake release 1.11.1.

Note that, on GNU/Linux and Solaris 10, the testcases passes without
problems.

To reproduce from a freshly extracted 1.11.1 tarball, make sure GNU make
is in PATH named as `gmake', then run:
  $ ./configure && make
  $ cd tests
  $ cp /path/to/saved/foo.test .
  $ sh foo.test
  ...
  gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/automake-1.11.1/tests/foo.dir'
  gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/automake-1.11.1/tests/foo.dir'
  [2]   Terminated              ${sleep}
  gmake: *** [check-am] Terminated
  + signal=15
  + Exit 1
  + set +e
  [1]   Terminated+               ${MAKE} -j1 checkexit
   1
  + exit 1
  + exit_status=1
  + set +e
  + cd /tmp/automake-1.11.1/tests
  + test 15 != 0
  + echo foo: caught signal 15
  foo: caught signal 15
  + echo foo: exit 1
  foo: exit 1
  + exit 1

Attached are the config.log file and test logs for /bin/sh, /bin/ksh, and
bash 4.1.

Any idea of what's going on?

Regards,
  Stefano

/tmp/automake-1.11.1/tests:/home/slattarini/bin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R7/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/pkg/bin:/usr/pkg/sbin:/usr/games:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin
=== Running test foo.test
+ pwd
/tmp/automake-1.11.1/tests/foo.dir
+ MAKE=gmake
+ export MAKE
+ cat
+ > configure.in 
+ << "END" 
+ cat
+ > Makefile.am 
+ << "END" 
+ cat
+ > foo1.test 
+ << "END" 
+ chmod a+x foo1.test
+ cat
+ > foo2.test 
+ << "END" 
+ chmod a+x foo2.test
+ cat
+ > foo3.test 
+ << "END" 
+ chmod a+x foo3.test
+ aclocal-1.11 -Werror
+ autoconf
+ automake-1.11 --foreign -Werror -Wall -a
+ ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... ./install-sh -c -d
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... no
checking for nawk... no
checking for awk... awk
checking whether gmake sets $(MAKE)... yes
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
+ sleep 2
+ gmake -j1 check
gmake  check-TESTS
gmake[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/automake-1.11.1/tests/foo.dir'
gmake[2]: Entering directory `/tmp/automake-1.11.1/tests/foo.dir'
PASS: foo1.test
+ kill 20320
+ test ! -f test-suite.log
+ sleep 2
PASS: foo2.test
PASS: foo3.test
==================
All 3 tests passed
==================
gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/automake-1.11.1/tests/foo.dir'
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/automake-1.11.1/tests/foo.dir'
Terminated 
+ signal=15
+ Exit 1
gmake: *** [check-am] Terminated
foo: caught signal 15
foo: exit 1

/tmp/automake-1.11.1/tests:/home/slattarini/bin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R7/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/pkg/bin:/usr/pkg/sbin:/usr/games:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin
=== Running test foo.test
++ pwd
/tmp/automake-1.11.1/tests/foo.dir
+ MAKE=gmake
+ export MAKE
+ cat
+ cat
+ for i in 1 2 3
+ cat
+ chmod a+x foo1.test
+ for i in 1 2 3
+ cat
+ chmod a+x foo2.test
+ for i in 1 2 3
+ cat
+ chmod a+x foo3.test
+ aclocal-1.11 -Werror
+ autoconf
+ automake-1.11 --foreign -Werror -Wall -a
+ ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... ./install-sh -c -d
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... no
checking for nawk... no
checking for awk... awk
checking whether gmake sets $(MAKE)... yes
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
+ sleep 2
+ gmake -j1 check
gmake  check-TESTS
gmake[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/automake-1.11.1/tests/foo.dir'
gmake[2]: Entering directory `/tmp/automake-1.11.1/tests/foo.dir'
PASS: foo1.test
+ kill 22441
+ test '!' -f test-suite.log
+ sleep 2
PASS: foo2.test
PASS: foo3.test
==================
All 3 tests passed
==================
gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/automake-1.11.1/tests/foo.dir'
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/automake-1.11.1/tests/foo.dir'
Terminated
++ signal=15
++ Exit 1
++ set +e
gmake: *** [check-am] Terminated
++ exit 1
++ exit 1
+ exit_status=1
+ set +e
+ cd /tmp/automake-1.11.1/tests
+ case $exit_status,$keep_testdirs in
+ test 15 '!=' 0
+ echo 'foo: caught signal 15'
foo: caught signal 15
+ echo 'foo: exit 1'
foo: exit 1
+ exit 1

/tmp/automake-1.11.1/tests:/home/slattarini/bin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R7/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/pkg/bin:/usr/pkg/sbin:/usr/games:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin
=== Running test foo.test
+ pwd
/tmp/automake-1.11.1/tests/foo.dir
+ MAKE=gmake
+ export MAKE
+ cat
+ cat
+ cat
+ chmod a+x foo1.test
+ cat
+ chmod a+x foo2.test
+ cat
+ chmod a+x foo3.test
+ aclocal-1.11 -Werror
+ autoconf
+ automake-1.11 --foreign -Werror -Wall -a
+ ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... ./install-sh -c -d
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... no
checking for nawk... no
checking for awk... awk
checking whether gmake sets $(MAKE)... yes
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
+ gmake -j1 check
+ sleep 2
gmake  check-TESTS
gmake[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/automake-1.11.1/tests/foo.dir'
gmake[2]: Entering directory `/tmp/automake-1.11.1/tests/foo.dir'
PASS: foo1.test
+ kill 26199
+ test ! -f test-suite.log
+ sleep 2
PASS: foo2.test
PASS: foo3.test
==================
All 3 tests passed
==================
gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/automake-1.11.1/tests/foo.dir'
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/automake-1.11.1/tests/foo.dir'
[2]   Terminated              ${sleep}
+ signal=15
+ Exit 1
+ set +e
gmake: *** [check-am] Terminated
[1]   Terminated              ${MAKE} -j1 check
+ exit 1
+ exit 1
+ exit_status=1
+ set +e
+ cd /tmp/automake-1.11.1/tests
+ test 15 != 0
+ echo foo: caught signal 15
foo: caught signal 15
+ echo foo: exit 1
foo: exit 1
+ exit 1

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## Platform. ##
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uname -m = amd64
uname -r = 5.1
uname -s = NetBSD
uname -v = NetBSD 5.1 (GENERIC) #0: Sat Nov  6 13:19:33 UTC 2010  
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PATH: /home/slattarini/bin
PATH: /bin
PATH: /sbin
PATH: /usr/bin
PATH: /usr/sbin
PATH: /usr/X11R7/bin
PATH: /usr/X11R6/bin
PATH: /usr/pkg/bin
PATH: /usr/pkg/sbin
PATH: /usr/games
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configure:2051: checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p
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configure:2103: checking for gawk
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configure:2103: checking for nawk
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configure:2103: checking for awk
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configure:2396: checking whether autoconf is installed
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## Cache variables. ##
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## Output variables. ##
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configure: exit 0

foo.test
Description: application/shellscript