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automake-1.16i pretest available: please test

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From: Peter Johansson <trojkan <at> gmail.com>
To: Karl Berry <karl <at> freefriends.org>, bug-automake <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: automake-1.16i pretest available: please test
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2023 14:44:54 +1000

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Hi Karl,

I get one failure (t/nodef) on Ubuntu 20.04 with autoconf 2.71. It's not 
obvious to me what is going wrong. Please let me know if I can help.

I have attached the test-suite.log

Regards,

Peter

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From: Karl Berry <karl <at> freefriends.org>
To: trojkan <at> gmail.com
Cc: 67894 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: automake-1.16i pretest available: please test
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2023 17:09:56 -0700

Hi Peter - thanks for trying the automake pretest.

    I get one failure (t/nodef) 

I suspect a timing problem, since I can't fathom any reason why that
particular test would fail on your system specifically.  (The test
basically just runs a minimal automake twice.)

    with autoconf 2.71. 

Indeed, since you're not using the development autoconf :),
automake should be falling back to a 1-second delay at various points,
but apparently isn't. I'll have to investigate further.

    Please let me know if I can help.

Could you try running the test on its own?
  make VERBOSE=1 check TESTS=t/nodef.sh keep_testdirs=yes

I rather suspect it will succeed. --thanks again, karl.

Message #11 received at 67894 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Peter Johansson <trojkan <at> gmail.com>
To: Karl Berry <karl <at> freefriends.org>
Cc: 67894 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#67894: automake-1.16i pretest available: please test
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2023 13:55:36 +1000

Hi Karl,

On 20/12/23 10:09, Karl Berry wrote:
> Could you try running the test on its own?
>    make VERBOSE=1 check TESTS=t/nodef.sh keep_testdirs=yes

I ran it ten times and it succeeded 70% of the runs, so seems quite 
random in line with being due to the timing issue.

Peter

Message #14 received at 67894 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Karl Berry <karl <at> freefriends.org>
To: trojkan <at> gmail.com
Cc: 67894 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#67894: automake-1.16i pretest available: please test
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2023 15:38:31 -0700

    I get one failure (t/nodef) 

Hi Peter - I hope this random timing bug is fixed now. If you're able to
test from the automake source tree
(https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/automake/), that would be great.
Else the next pretest should be coming along soon. --thanks, karl.

Message #17 received at 67894 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Peter Johansson <trojkan <at> gmail.com>
To: Karl Berry <karl <at> freefriends.org>
Cc: 67894 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#67894: automake-1.16i pretest available: please test
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2024 10:46:05 +1000

Hi Karl,

On 27/12/23 08:38, Karl Berry wrote:
>      I get one failure (t/nodef)
>
> Hi Peter - I hope this random timing bug is fixed now.

It seems to work. 'make check -j16' goes through and since it seemed to 
be of a random nature previously I ran the individual test repeatedly 
and it passed every time.

Cheers,

Peter

Message #20 received at 67894 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Karl Berry <karl <at> freefriends.org>
To: trojkan <at> gmail.com
Cc: 67894 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#67894: automake-1.16i pretest available: please test
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2024 15:46:53 -0700

    It seems to work. 'make check -j16' goes through and since it seemed to 
    be of a random nature previously I ran the individual test repeatedly 
    and it passed every time.

Thanks for confirming, Peter. Myriad other problems have been reported,
so it's nice to have one that actually got fixed :). Closing this out ...

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