Re: rhel8 test failure confirmation?

2023-04-04 Thread Jacob Bachmeyer
Bogdan wrote: Jacob Bachmeyer , Mon Apr 03 2023 06:16:53 GMT+0200 (Central European Summer Time) Karl Berry wrote: [...] What can we do about this? As for automake: can we (you :) somehow modify the computation of the sleep value to determine if autom4te can handle the HiRes testing or

Re: faster tests [was: rhel8 test failure confirmation?]

2023-04-04 Thread Karl Berry
Is there a way to time individual tests I don't know. Maybe one of the more experienced automakers here can advise. Makes me wonder about having the test infrastructure start each test by running date to get the start time into the log file. Does anyone see a problem with doing that? The

Re: rhel8 test failure confirmation?

2023-04-04 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Tue, Apr 4, 2023, at 3:51 PM, Bogdan wrote: > Nice. The 0 and 1 may not be portable to each OS in the Universe > (see EXIT_SUCCESS and EXIT_FAILURE in exit(3)), but should be > good/portable enough for our goals. Or maybe some other simple solution. ISO C guarantees that exit(0) has the

Re: rhel8 test failure confirmation?

2023-04-04 Thread Bogdan
Jacob Bachmeyer , Mon Apr 03 2023 06:16:53 GMT+0200 (Central European Summer Time) Karl Berry wrote: [...]    What can we do about this? As for automake: can we (you :) somehow modify the computation of the sleep value to determine if autom4te can handle the HiRes testing or not (i.e., has

Re: rhel8 test failure confirmation?

2023-04-04 Thread Bogdan
Karl Berry , Mon Apr 03 2023 02:08:23 GMT+0200 (Central European Summer Time) I modified my autom4te using the attached patch, Thank you very very much for finding this, Bogdan. :) Hope it saved some headaches :) I'm glad that Paul has already installed it in Autoconf. I can't

Re: faster tests [was: rhel8 test failure confirmation?]

2023-04-04 Thread Bogdan
Karl Berry , Mon Apr 03 2023 02:08:22 GMT+0200 (Central European Summer Time) # A trick to make the test run muuuch faster, by avoiding repeated # runs of aclocal (one order of magnitude improvement in speed!). echo 'AC_INIT(x,0) AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE' > configure.ac Hadn't noticed