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

Reply via email to