I've spent the morning trying to reproduce this, without success. After a "make maintainer-clean", cvs update, full rebuild cycle, I cannot get anything funny to happen in "make check" under HPUX, RH Linux 8.0, or OS X.
I'm a bit hesitant to write it off as a build problem, because (a) I can't see anything in the recent CVS logs that might cause such, and (b) it's surprising that it'd bite both you and me. But at this point I don't see what else to say.
Can you still reproduce the problem after a clean rebuild?
FWIW, I just updated to cvs tip, did
make clean ./configure ... make all make install make check (repeated 6 times)
The only failure I get is horology due to the "--enable-integer-datetimes" issue (which I think there is a patch in the queue for). This is on Red Hat 7.3.
Joe
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