Re: [PATCH] Testsuite now works with BSD make in parallel mode.

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Stefano,

* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 11:21:26PM CEST:
> * tests/defs.in: Unset variables __MKLVL__ and MAKE_JOBS_FIFO,
> which are exported by BSD make when run in parallel mode, and
> which can confuse make processes spawned by our testsuite.
> This change fixes a lot of spurious failure when the testsuite
> is run with BSD make in parallel mode.

> Without this patch, the automake testsuite reports at least 20
> spurious failures when run in parallel mode with freebsd-make on
> my debian box.  This is due to a couple of leaked environment
> variables, used internally by BSD make: 
>   - MAKE_JOBS_FIFO
>   - __MKLVL__
> (not exactly sure about the second one, but removing it "just to be
> sure" should be OK IMO).

Nice!  Thank you for looking into this, this is going into maint.

Cheers,
Ralf