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On Tuesday 18 October 2011, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> Reference:
>  <http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=8788>
> 
> On Thursday 02 June 2011, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> > 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.
> > 
> > [SNIP]
> > 
> > Any idea of what's going on?
> > 
> Ah ah, got it! (I think).  The failure is due to an interaction between some
> features of GNU make and some (mis)features the NetBSD Korn Shell.
>
> [SNIP]
> 
> Now, the right fix for the bug is *not* to work around this behaviour
> of the Korn shell; rather, we should fix the suspicious logic of the
> `parallel-tests3.test' script, which was also causing a testsuite hang
> on FreeBSD.  Patch coming up shortly.
> 
And here is the promised patch (see attachement).  I will allow a couple of
days for reviews before pushing.

Regards,
  Stefano