Re: [PATCH] Automake-git testsuite failures: aclocal9, acloca10, nodef

[Peter Breitenlohner]

On Tue, 24 Nov 2009, Peter Breitenlohner wrote:

> as I mentioned a few weeks ago, I get a few FAILs when runnig 'make check'
> on the current Automake-git.  Looking into the three tests I concluded that
> it must be a timing problem.  Running ten times just these three tests I
> got:
>
> aclocal9: 6 FAIL + 4 PASS
> acloca10: 10 FAIL
> nodef: 8 FAIL + 2 PASS
>
> after applying the attached patch I got 10 PASSes for each test.
>
> The patch introduces a delay between successive invocations of aclocal.
> Probably using 'aclocal -f' would have the same effect, but a delay --
> undesirable as it might be -- seems to be closer to a typical use case.
>
> BTW: There may be additional test suffering from the same problem.

Hi Ralf,

the patch probably should use '$sleep' instead of 'sleep 1'.

Regards
Peter Breitenlohner <address@hidden>