Re: parallel-tests: work around Tru64/OSF 5.1 sh read bugs.

[Stefano Lattarini]

On Sunday 16 January 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Quoting:
> http://autobuild.josefsson.org/automake/log-201101150748140530000.txt
> 
> | FAIL: parallel-tests9.test (exit: 1)
> | ====================================
> | 
> | 
> /tmp/am/build-alphaev67-dec-osf5.1/tests:/tmp/local/alphaev67-dec-osf5.1/bin:/tmp/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/opt/svr4/bin:/etc:/usr/etc:/usr/dt/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/ucb
> | + set -e 
> | + pwd 
> | /tmp/am/build-alphaev67-dec-osf5.1/tests/parallel-tests9.dir
> | + cat 
> | + cat 
> | + cat 
> | + cat 
> | + cat 
> | + chmod a+x foo.test bar.test baz.test 
> | + aclocal-1.11a -Werror 
> | + autoconf 
> | + automake-1.11a --foreign -Werror -Wall -a 
> | + ./configure 
> | checking for a BSD-compatible install... ./install-sh -c
> | checking whether build environment is sane... yes
> | checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... ./install-sh -c -d
> | checking for gawk... no
> | checking for mawk... no
> | checking for nawk... nawk
> | checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
> | checking that generated files are newer than configure... done
> | configure: creating ./config.status
> | config.status: creating Makefile
> | + make check 
> | 
> | Stop.
> | 
> | Stop.
> | 
> | Stop.
> | + cat stdout 
> | make  bla
> | echo bla > bla
> | make  check-TESTS
> | PASS: foo.test
> | FAIL: bar.test
> | FAIL: baz.test
> | ===================
> | 2 of 3 tests failed
> | See ./mylog.log
> | ===================
> | *** Exit 1*** Exit 1*** Exit 1+ make recheck 
> | 
> | Stop.
> | 
> | Stop.
> | 
> | Stop.
> | 
> | Stop.
> | + cat stdout 
> | make TEST_LOGS="bar.log baz.log" bla
> | `bla' is up to date.
> | make TEST_LOGS="bar.log baz.log" check-TESTS
> | FAIL: bar.test
> | FAIL: baz.test
> | ===================
> | 2 of 2 tests failed
> | See ./mylog.log
> | ===================
> | *** Exit 1*** Exit 1*** Exit 1*** Exit 1+ grep foo.test stdout 
> | + grep bar.test stdout 
> | FAIL: bar.test
> | + grep baz.test stdout 
> | FAIL: baz.test
> | + grep 2 of 2.*failed stdout 
> | 2 of 2 tests failed
> | + chmod a-r foo.log 
> | + test ! -r foo.log 
> | + make recheck 
> | sh: foo.log: cannot open
> | + cat stdout 
> | make TEST_LOGS="" bla
> | `bla' is up to date.
> | make TEST_LOGS="" check-TESTS
> | ==================
> | All 0 tests passed
> | ==================
> | + Exit 1 
> 
> 
> This is due to this portability issue:
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.patches/7522
> 
> Here's a patch to fix the instances I could find in the Automake tree.
> Unfortunately, I don't see an easy way to expose the first two hunks in
> check.am, they would require making a log unreadable between the test
> running and the summary generation.
>
What about the attached testcase?  Unfortunately, I cannot really test
it because I lack access to a Tru64/OSF 5.1 system.

Regards,
   Stefano

parallel-tests-unreadable-log.test
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