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Unexplained failure in test 't/install-info-dir.sh'

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From: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>
To: 14601 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Elio Blanca <eblanca76 <at> users.sourceforge.net>,
 "automake-patches <at> gnu.org" <automake-patches <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Check failed, why?
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 20:02:53 +0100

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tags 14601 + moreinfo
severity 14601 minor
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Reference:
http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=14601

Hi Elio, thanks for the report and sorry for the awful delay.

I've fixed two of the failures you reported:

* t/autohdr-subdir-pr12495.sh
  This failure was due to localization issues in make error messages;
  it has already been fixed as part of bug#15237.

* t/t/tap-realtime.sh
  This I can reproduce when mawk is used as the awk implementation
  invoked by the tap-driver.sh script.  Still this is a spurious
  failure, because when I force mawk to be used by Automake's own
  test suite, the driver correctly starts printing partial results
  from TAP tests way before the tests have completed their execution
  -- a failure to do so is exactly the issue this test is supposed
  to spot.  I'm now convinced this test is too brittle, and not
  worth having, I've removed it with the first attached patch.

For the failure of install-info-dir.sh, however, I'm a bit at a
loss. For the moment, I've tweaked the tests to make it output
more information that can be useful for debugging (see the second
attached patch).  Could you please re-run the test with these
tweaks, and get back to us with the complete output?

Thanks,
  Stefano

[0001-tests-remove-too-brittle-test-tap-realtime.sh.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

[0002-tests-make-install-info-dir.sh-print-more-debugging-.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

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