Re: Failure on test parallel-tests5.test

[Ralf Wildenhues]

[ http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.automake.bugs/5061 ]

* Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote on Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 05:49:00PM CET:
> On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 10:48:10AM +0100, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 10:01:09AM +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > > (ulimit -t 300; sh -c 'while make check TESTS=parallel-tests5.test; do :; 
> > > done')

> > > Which make implementation and version do you use?  Which distro is this?
> > 
> > It's NixOS.
> > gnu make 3.82.
> 
> After many retries, the test failed again. The part of the log about the 
> failure
> says:
> 
> ......
> gcc -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"parallel-tests5\" -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"parallel-tests5\" 
> -DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"1.0\" -DPACKAGE_STRING=\"parallel-tests5\ 1.0\" 
> -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"\" -DPACKAGE_URL=\"\" -DPACKAGE=\"parallel-tests5\" 
> -DVERSION=\"1.0\" -I.     -g -O2 -MT foo4.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/foo4.Tpo -c -o 
> foo4.o foo4.c
> building foo5.o
> mv -f .deps/foo2.Tpo .deps/foo2.Po
> make[2]: vfork: Function not implemented
> make[2]: *** Deleting file `foo2.o'

Interesting.

[...]
> make[2]: Leaving directory 
> `/tmp/nix-build-v732qfq81afcilibmp48al3gqw1avpvz-automake-1.11.1.drv-0/automake-1.11.1/tests/parallel-tests5.dir'
> make[1]: *** [check-TESTS] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory 
> `/tmp/nix-build-v732qfq81afcilibmp48al3gqw1avpvz-automake-1.11.1.drv-0/automake-1.11.1/tests/parallel-tests5.dir'
> make: *** [check-am] Error 2
> 
> It looks like a 'make' or glibc problem, right?

It looks like a NixOS or a 'make' problem.  Can you report this to the
NixOS developers to see if they have any input on it?  Hmm, lemme see;
Ludovic, are you the right person to ask on this?

Thanks,
Ralf