Re: make check (8.1) hangs forever

[Pádraig Brady]

Jim Meyering wrote:
> Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> I just noticed the test was skipped in this report also:
>>  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-12/msg00031.html
>>
>> So the approach I've taken is to mark this test as experimental for now.
>> I.E. it won't be run unless we explicitly enable it.
>> It's a nice test which hopefully we can use in future,
>> but it's just too problematic at the moment.
> 
> Thanks!
> I don't object, but this would mean that I'd want to run with
> RUN_EXPERIMENTAL_TESTS set in my environment to ensure that this test
> doesn't bit rot -- or tail regress.  It does pass for me on most of
> the systems on which I test regularly.

Yes I had it as a "very expensive" test first.
I'll change it back to that and push.

cheers,
Pádraig.