On Wed, 8 Apr 2015 20:31:19 +0100 Ken Moffat <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 08, 2015 at 07:07:41PM +0100, Hazel Russman wrote: > > On Wed, 8 Apr 2015 18:42:35 +0100 > > Ken Moffat <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Apr 08, 2015 at 06:01:02PM +0100, Hazel Russman wrote: > > > > According to the book, a failure of Test 501 (libtool test) is > > > > expected. I also have a failure of Test 209 (parallel autotest and > > > > signal handling) which is not in the book or in the specimen log. > > > > > > > > This failure remains when retesting after installing automake, and also > > > > when autoconf is built and checked with -j1. I've installed the package > > > > anyway but I wonder if anyone else has seen this error. > > > > > > I've not seen it, but I'll comment on "built and checked with -j1". > > > For the build, I would use -jN (for the largest value of N which is > > > useful on that particular machine), and only use -j1 for the check. > > Chapter 4.5 suggests using -j1 if any problems arise with a normal build. I > > wanted to see if that would make any difference in this case. > > Fair enough. > > > > Testsuites and -jN can be nasty (see my comments on gcc in the past > > > few months on -dev). > > > > > > Do you still get that failure if you use fresh source ? Many > > > testsuites do not give complete reruns, they save existing results - > > > no idea if this is one of them. > > I always use freshly untarred source in my LFS builds. Again I think this > > is specifically recommended in the book. > > Yes, but presumably you had kept the (installed) build around to > retest after installing automake (the book implies that, I think). I > just wanted to be clear that this was a fresh build which still gave > that problem. Yes, the first failures were on the same build that I had already installed. Afterwards I did several fresh ones just to be sure. > In any case, you had to install it to be able to install automake so > I would not worry unduly. > > ĸen > -- -- Hazel Russman <[email protected]> -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
