Re: non-deterministic test failure: _clos1way2

[arnold]

Hi.

Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Thank you for the prompt reply!

You're welcome.

> arnold@skeeve.com writes:
>
> > Hi.
> >
> > Thanks for the bug report.
> >
> > This sort of error shows up on (say) Ubuntu when running the checks
> > under valgrind. It does happen also some legacy Unix and (IIRC) BSD
> > systems.  Any idea what might be the difference between Guix and
> > Ubuntu that would cause this?
>
> It seems it was somehow related to using a minimal build of Bash instead
> of a full-fledged one; in Guix a minimal Bash is used by default in the
> build environment; 
>
> ....
>
> Notice the disabled features (configure flags).  Perhaps one of these is
> required, and is also disabled in Ubuntu's build of Bash?

On Ubuntu it only fails when using valgrind, not in normal daily use.

> ...
> Resolved the random test failures, at least I haven't seen them in 20
> builds of gawk (I used to be able to trigger the problem in less than 10
> builds).

Great!

Take it easy,

Arnold