Hi Stefano, * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 01:30:05PM CEST: > > I forced the automake testsuite to run tests in parallel using the > > *Zsh* shell, with the following command: > > $ make -j5 TEST_LOG_COMPILER='zsh --nofunctionargzero' check > > > > The following failures turned up: > > > > FAIL: aclocal8.test (exit: 1) > > FAIL: acsilent.test (exit: 1) > > FAIL: depcomp2.test (exit: 1) > > FAIL: getopt.test (exit: 1) > > FAIL: location.test (exit: 1) > > FAIL: missing3.test (exit: 1) > > FAIL: output-order.test (exit: 1) > > FAIL: parallel-tests4.test (exit: 2) > > FAIL: unused.test (exit: 1) > > FAIL: warnopts.test (exit: 1) > > FAIL: check9-p.test (exit: 2)
> If anybody is still interested in this report: I did some further > investigations, and it soon turned out that the failures are due to > the fact that zsh (version 4 or later) handle the `-x' option in a > totally brain-damaged way. In details: if a command which is run > when `set -x' is active has its standard error redirected to a file, > then zsh writes *also the trace* for the command into that file, > instead that into the original standard error. [...] > I found no workaround. info Autoconf "File Descriptors" describes this issue and a possible workaround. Wanna give it a try? Thanks! Ralf
