Subject: Re: bug#10418: 10 test failures on Fedora 16

From: Stefano Lattarini <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 01 Jan 2012 20:13:58 +0100

> FAIL: ar-lib3
> =============
This spurious failure is fixed by the attached patch (applied to msvc, merged
into branch-1.11 and master).

Thanks,
  Stefano
>From 7db422b23f1921c94a6eea7489b10b98fc7ef183 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
Message-Id: <7db422b23[email-masked]>
From: Stefano Lattarini <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2012 19:35:44 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] tests: fix spurious failure due to autom4te caching

* tests/ar-lib3.test: Remove stale autom4te.cache directory, to
prevent racy, spurious failures.

Reported by Jim Meyering in automake bug#10418.
---
 tests/ar-lib3.test |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tests/ar-lib3.test b/tests/ar-lib3.test
index 6bcf6c2..791322f 100755
--- a/tests/ar-lib3.test
+++ b/tests/ar-lib3.test
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ cat >> configure.in << 'END'
 AM_PROG_AR
 END
 
+rm -rf autom4te*.cache
 $ACLOCAL
 $AUTOMAKE --add-missing
 
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1.7.7.3