Re: [bug-gnu-utils] sharutils-4.13.4 test failures

[Bruce Korb]

On 04/01/13 13:23, Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote:
> I've done 35 or so builds of sharutils-4.13.4 today on about 25
> flavors of Unix.  Most succeeded, and passed all tests, but on a few,
> I get failures, with core dumps, like this:
> 
>       PASS: uutest-1
>       FAIL: shar-1
>       PASS: shar-2
>       FAIL: shar-3

shar-3 is a stress test problem:  automake has added a "feature" wherein
logs get stashed away inside of directories that have been here-to-fore
untouched.  Since my test consists of shar-ing and unshar-ing the sharutils
build directory, there's a wee bit of a problem.  I had made some adjustments
that fixed it for some environments, but apparently not all of 'em.

So I have to figure out some way of reliably getting largish directory
trees with largish files that can be split across shar archives.
The build tree is a great suspect, but not if it contains files that change
dynamically while the test is in progress.  *sigh*.