Re: Patch 2.7.6 and deep-directories failed test

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 4:09 PM Andreas Grünbacher <agruen@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> Am Do., 7. Jan. 2021 um 20:40 Uhr schrieb Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com>:
> > Hi Everyone,
> >
> > I'm testing Patch 2.7.6 on Ubuntu 18.05, x86_64 fully patched. Patch
> > is failing one self test:
> >
> > # TOTAL: 44
> > # PASS:  41
> > # SKIP:  0
> > # XFAIL: 2
> > # FAIL:  1
> > # XPASS: 0
> > # ERROR: 0
> >
> > And:
> >
> > $ cat patch-2.7.6/tests/deep-directories.log
> > [26] patch -p1 < ab.diff || echo Status: $? -- FAILED
> > --- expected
> > +++ got
> > @@ -1 +1,2 @@
> > -patching file 1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8/9/foo
> > +/home/jwalton/Build-Scripts/patch-2.7.6/src/patch: **** Can't create
> > temporary file 1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8/9/foo.oV1sAfd : Too many open files
> > +Status: 2
> > 1 tests (0 passed, 1 failed)
> > FAIL deep-directories (exit status: 1)
> >
> > If deep-directories can fail, it seems like it should be an XFAIL, not a 
> > FAIL.
>
> The test shouldn't fail, but I also don't think this is a known defect
> in patch 2.7.6, and the bug doesn't trigger here for me, either.
>
> What do you get with the latest code from patch's git repository?

I was able to bootstrap and configure, but make failed:

...
/usr/bin/cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I..
-I/home/jwalton/ok2delete/include -DNDEBUG  -g2 -O2 -march=native
-fPIC -pthread -MT parse-datetime.o -MD -MP -MF
.deps/parse-datetime.Tpo -c -o parse-datetime.o parse-datetime.c
parse-datetime.tab.c:646:10: fatal error: parse-datetime.tab.h: No
such file or directory
compilation terminated.
Makefile:1731: recipe for target 'parse-datetime.o' failed
make[3]: *** [parse-datetime.o] Error 1
make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
mv -f .deps/opendirat.Tpo .deps/opendirat.Po
mv -f .deps/gl_linked_list.Tpo .deps/gl_linked_list.Po
mv -f .deps/progname.Tpo .deps/progname.Po
mv -f .deps/hash.Tpo .deps/hash.Po
mv -f .deps/nstrftime.Tpo .deps/nstrftime.Po
make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/jwalton/Build-Scripts/patch-master/lib'
Makefile:1514: recipe for target 'all' failed

Jeff