On Sat, Nov 30, 2019 at 01:59:36PM +1300, Michael Cree wrote: > (...) It passes more often than not and > only fails occasionally. I see that there is a patch in the > debian/patches directory to avoid a race condition in this test. > But I don't know guile so don't understand the code.
There are a few of the "guile" tests that have some timing aspects where sometimes you "win" the race, and other times you "lose". In an earlier private message, I indicated one such test where I had to lengthen the sleep intervals before following actions were taken (because my system is so slow relative to modern hardware). If I didn't mention the specific test, it had to do with making sure the "guild" compiler would clean up after itself if interrupted. On the PWS, it was taking a few more seconds for the interrupt to be received and processed than the test originally allowed. You wouldn't have seen or experienced that particular problem on any of the "buildd" systems. --Bob
