Re: check4.test consistently failing

[Philipp Thomas]

* Ralf Wildenhues (address@hidden) [20090429 21:02]:

> That "just" is an interesting statement.  I had to create an account
> with Novell, then had to click through more pages.

Sorry, I shoulkd have warned you, but it's so familiar to me I forgetr the
initial hassles.

> buildservice quite complex at first, not knowing where the actual logs
> would be.  Anyway, found at least one log with one failing test, but it
> was check10.test not check4.test.

Again, I am too familiar with it to notice such problems.

> You need to search for
>   ^FAIL:.*\.test$

Good to know
 
> to avoid being tricked by testsuite runs inside of testsuite runs.

Seems like that was the case.

> The specific failure I found was due to /bin/sh being a ksh variant,
> and fixed with this post-1.10.2 patch.

Well, if you can call bash 4.x a ksh variant ... :)
 
> > > Second, do you have a testcase that shows what the require_file_internal
> > > patch is required for?
> > 
> > See https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=64822
> 
> Even with an account, I am not allowed to see this.  Wonder what kind of
> policy is behind that.

I didn't see that the bug had been marked 'open to SUSE Enterprise
customers' as is the default for bugs found in our enterprise products. I've
put you in CC of that bug so you should now be able to access it.


> Can you please send a full bug report containing all necessary
> information from above PR to bug-automake, including a reproducible test
> case, in a separate thread?  Thanks.

I haven't before created a test case for automake but I'll try.

Philipp