Hi I'm testing automake-1.10 on i686-pc-linux-gnu and seeing an intermittent failure of acloca20.test. It fails for me roughly 1 in 4 attempts, but then other times it will pass 10 times in a row. Here's the verbose output when it fails:
$ make check TESTS=acloca20.test VERBOSE=x make defs aclocal-1.10 automake-1.10 make[1]: Entering directory `/home/pkgmgr/a/automake-1.10/tests' make[1]: `defs' is up to date. make[1]: `aclocal-1.10' is up to date. make[1]: `automake-1.10' is up to date. make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/pkgmgr/a/automake-1.10/tests' make check-TESTS make[1]: Entering directory `/home/pkgmgr/a/automake-1.10/tests' /home/pkgmgr/a/automake-1.10/tests:/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/temptools/bin === Running test ./acloca20.test ++ pwd /home/pkgmgr/a/automake-1.10/tests/testSubDir + set -e + cat + cat + cat + autoconf + ./configure configure: loading site script /etc/config.site checking whether ln -s works... yes configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating doit + ./doit + grep 'wrong foo' aclocal.m4 m4_define([FOO], [echo wrong foo]) + cat + sed 's/dnl //' + mv -f configure.int configure.in + aclocal-1.10 -Werror + autoconf + ./configure + grep 'right foo' FAIL: acloca20.test ===================================== 1 of 1 tests failed Please report to [email protected] ===================================== make[1]: *** [check-TESTS] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/pkgmgr/a/automake-1.10/tests' make: *** [check-am] Error 2 Thanks Greg
