Hello Ralf, thanks for the bug report.
* Ralf Corsepius wrote on Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 06:31:47AM CEST: > autoconf-2.68's testsuite deterministically fails for me in test 205 > for a variety of OSes: > > ... > 205: parallel autotest and signal handling FAILED > (autotest.at:1617) Yeah, it's the test that is broken, not Autotest. The bug is known. Sorry, I didn't manage to get it fixed in time for 2.68. FWIW, the test wrongly assumes that the output crosses a pipe buffer boundary and thus elicits a SIGPIPE, which is simply not true on some systems. Cheers, Ralf