[Reposting with a better subject. Sorry for the noise.] On Sunday 14 November 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Hello Stefano, > > I think it is time to reevaluate some of the work that has been done in > the last few weeks. I'd like to ask you to postpone pushes of pending > stuff that has a clock ticking, and look at the lots of new failures > that a testsuite run shows on a few hosts; you can find them in some > minutes on <http://autobuild.josefsson.org/automake/>.
Log: <http://autobuild.josefsson.org/automake/log-201011141903417895000.txt> Minimal system info: configure: autobuild project... GNU Automake configure: autobuild revision... v1.11-225-gcdd3cf3 configure: autobuild hostname... hikaru configure: autobuild mode... default configure: autobuild timestamp... 20111412T185841Z checking build system type... sparc-sun-solaris2.10 -*-*-*- All the testsuite failures seem spurious, and due to the following rm error (in the "distclean" target, if I'm not mistaken): "rm: Unable to remove directory ...: File exists" What's going on here? Maybe NFS issues (wild guess)? <http://www.unix.com/unix-dummies-questions-answers/72080-rm-unable-remove-directory-mnt-users-test-logs-file-exists.html> Or something relate to FS logging or FS corruption (wilder guess)? <http://www.webservertalk.com/archive101-2004-1-65261.html> -*-*-*- I can say I test automake on a Solaris 10 system (i86pc) quite often, and the testsuite is behaving quite well there (apart from some pre-existing, mostly spurious failures). Regards, Stefano
