Package: automake;
Reported by: Dennis Clarke <dclarke <at> blastwave.org>
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2012 05:42:02 UTC
Severity: minor
Tags: moreinfo
Done: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
Message #27 received at 12184 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
From: Dennis Clarke <dclarke <at> blastwave.org> To: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com> Cc: 12184 <at> debbugs.gnu.org Subject: Re: bug#12184: GNU Automake 1.12.2 - 4 tests FAIL on Solaris 10 Sparc Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2012 20:08:11 +0000 (GMT)
> On 08/12/2012 08:59 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
> >
> > Wow .. things just got a LOT worse here. After nearly 7 hours :
> >
> > ============================================================================
> > Testsuite summary for GNU Automake 1.12.2
> > ============================================================================
> > # TOTAL: 2730
> > # PASS: 2445
> > # SKIP: 217
> > # XFAIL: 50
> > # FAIL: 17
> > # XPASS: 0
> > # ERROR: 1
> >
> > This is just, staggering.
> >
> > I am really trying to figure out what could be in the environment
> that
> > is the cause of these multitude of failures.
> >
>
> My guess is that your grep (in /usr/local/bin/ggrep ) is busted.
> First clue:
>
> FAIL: t/confsub
> ===============
> ...
> + /usr/local/bin/ggrep -F -v 'cd $(top_builddir)'
> Binary file subdir/Makefile.in matches
>
> Huh? How on earth is grep thinking that Automake has generated a
> binary file?
yeah, that is just plain wrong. What really annoys me is that grep-2.13 built fine and passed all of its testsuite.
I am at a point where I may have to rm -rf /usr/local and start over from square zero with clean builds and clean tools.
Really I am only doing this because I need Apache APR and HTTP to be up to date, latest and greatest and 64-bit all the way.
There are a pile of dependencies.
I am sure you know what I mean.
>
>
> Another example:
>
> FAIL: t/parallel-tests-fork-bomb
> ================================
> ...
> + env TESTS=test-suite.test make -e check
> + st=1
> + cat output
> make check-TESTS
> make: Warning: Infinite loop: Target `test-suite.log' depends on itself
> Current working directory /usr/local/build/automake-1.12.2_sparcv9_001/t/parallel-tests-fork-bomb.dir
> mkdir rec-0.d
> make: Warning: Infinite loop: Target `test-suite.log' depends on itself
> Current working directory /usr/local/build/automake-1.12.2_sparcv9_001/t/parallel-tests-fork-bomb.dir
> mkdir rec-0.d
> mkdir: Failed to make directory "rec-0.d"; File exists
> mkdir rec-1.d
> fatal: making test-suite.log: possible infinite recursion detected
> fatal: making test-suite.log: failed to create test-suite.trs
> fatal: making test-suite.log: failed to create test-suite.log
> *** Error code 1
> ...
>
> and so far so good, because the setup in that test is explicitly meant
> to elicit such error messages from make; but then we have:
>
> ...
> + /usr/local/bin/ggrep -E -i 'depend.* on itself' output \
> | /usr/local/bin/ggrep -F test-suite.log
> + continue
> + test no = yes
> + _am_exit 1
>
> which is just wrong, because we've seen that the file 'output' contains
> the string "Infinite loop: Target `test-suite.log' depends on itself",
> which should be matched by the grep commands above.
>
>
> Later, once again, ggrep mistakes a simple text file for a binary one:
>
> FAIL: t/tap-ambiguous-directive
> ===============================
> ...
> + cat
> + /usr/local/bin/ggrep -F ': all.test' stdout
> + cat exp
> PASS: all.test 1 # foo SKIP
> FAIL: all.test 2 # bar TODO
> PASS: all.test 3 # :SKIP
> FAIL: all.test 4 # :TODO
> SKIP: all.test 5 # SKIP SKIP
> XFAIL: all.test 6 # TODO TODO
> + cat got
> Binary file stdout matches
> ...
>
> All the other failures seem similar to this last one.
>
>
> > [SNIP]
> >
> > In fact there really isn't anything there that would be harmful.
> >
> No in the compiler :-) But GNU grep is busted on your system IMHO.
lovely :-(
I think I should be able to kill it and simply remove the bits that
it affects. Thankfully I keep an audit log of every file that gets
"installed" ( read copied into place ) in /usr/local thus :
$ cat fidlist | grep -v "drwx" | awk '{ print $3 " " $8 " " $9 " " $10 " " $11 }'
-rw-r--r-- Aug 12 09:01 ./lib/charset.alias
-rwxr-xr-x Aug 12 09:02 ./bin/gegrep
-rwxr-xr-x Aug 12 09:02 ./bin/ggrep
-rwxr-xr-x Aug 12 09:02 ./bin/gfgrep
-rw-r--r-- Aug 12 09:02 ./share/man/man1/gfgrep.1
-rw-r--r-- Aug 12 09:02 ./share/man/man1/gegrep.1
-rw-r--r-- Aug 12 09:02 ./share/man/man1/ggrep.1
-rw-r--r-- Aug 12 09:01 ./share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
-rw-r--r-- Aug 12 09:01 ./share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
-rw-r--r-- Aug 12 09:01 ./share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
-rw-r--r-- Aug 12 09:01 ./share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
-rw-r--r-- Aug 12 09:01 ./share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
-rw-r--r-- Aug 12 09:01 ./share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
-rw-r--r-- Aug 12 09:01 ./share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
-rw-r--r-- Aug 12 09:01 ./share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
-rw-r--r-- Aug 12 09:01 ./share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
-rw-r--r-- Aug 12 09:01 ./share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
-rw-r--r-- Aug 12 09:01 ./share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
-rw-r--r-- Aug 12 09:01 ./share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
-rw-r--r-- Aug 12 09:01 ./share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
-rw-r--r-- Aug 12 09:01 ./share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
-rw-r--r-- Aug 12 09:01 ./share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
-rw-r--r-- Aug 12 09:01 ./share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
-rw-r--r-- Aug 12 09:01 ./share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
-rw-r--r-- Aug 12 09:01 ./share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
-rw-r--r-- Aug 12 09:01 ./share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
-rw-r--r-- Aug 12 09:01 ./share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
-rw-r--r-- Aug 12 09:01 ./share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
-rw-r--r-- Aug 12 09:01 ./share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
-rw-r--r-- Aug 12 09:01 ./share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
-rw-r--r-- Aug 12 09:01 ./share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
-rw-r--r-- Aug 12 09:01 ./share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
-rw-r--r-- Aug 12 09:01 ./share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
-rw-r--r-- Aug 12 09:01 ./share/locale/ky/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
-rw-r--r-- Aug 12 09:01 ./share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
-rw-r--r-- Aug 12 09:01 ./share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
-rw-r--r-- Aug 12 09:01 ./share/locale/af/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
-rw-r--r-- Aug 12 09:01 ./share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
-rw-r--r-- Aug 12 09:01 ./share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
-rw-r--r-- Aug 12 09:01 ./share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
-rw-r--r-- Aug 12 09:01 ./share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
-rw-r--r-- Aug 12 09:01 ./share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
-rw-r--r-- Aug 12 09:01 ./share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
-rw-r--r-- Aug 12 09:01 ./share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
-rw-r--r-- Aug 12 09:01 ./share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
-rw-r--r-- Aug 12 09:01 ./share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
-rw-r--r-- Aug 12 09:01 ./share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
-rw-r--r-- Aug 12 09:01 ./share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
-rw-r--r-- Aug 12 09:01 ./share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
-rw-r--r-- Aug 12 09:01 ./share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
-rw-r--r-- Aug 12 09:02 ./share/info/grep.info
So I will kill off those binaries and edit /usr/local/lib/charset.alias to remove any reference to grep.
> > I have a lot of processor cores here ( 128 of them ) and if I can
> run
> > gmake -j 8 check to speed things up I can get results in an hour.
> >
> Great!
>
> > Any suggestions at all ?
> >
> You might try this:
>
> $ gmake check -j8 FGREP='/usr/xpg4/bin/grep -F'
> EGREP='/usr/xpg4/bin/grep -E'
>
> and see if/how things improve.
I will do ALL of the above right away and let you know, hopefully in an hour or less.
Dennis
ps: you Sir, are awesome
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