severity 10737 minor tags 10737 patch close 10737 thanks Hi Larry, thanks for the report. And sorry for the late answer, but your message has reached the mailing list just today :-/
On 01/31/2012 04:30 AM, Larry Daniel wrote: > > > ============================================= > GNU Automake 1.11: tests/test-suite.log > ============================================= Consider that 1.11 is already some years old, and, most importantly, suffers from a know security vulnerability: <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.autotools.announce/131> I'd advise you to install the latest version 1.11.3 instead. > 1 of 628 tests failed. (101 tests were not run). > > FAIL: aclocal5.test (exit: 1) > [SNIP] Ah-ah, you've hit this known and extremely low-probability bug: <http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=8365> Attached is a testsuite enhancement to avoid similar failures in the future. Thanks again, Stefano
>From f5f838a2eba1bb26a755762665095ae76fe59a9e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 Message-Id: <f5f838a2eba1bb26a755762665095ae76fe59a9e.1328640835.git.stefano.lattar...@gmail.com> From: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattar...@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2012 19:53:49 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] tests: fix a timestamp-related spurious failures Fixes automake bug#10737. Report from Larry Daniel. See also automake bug#8365 and commit 'v1.11-329-gd4df619' of 30-03-2011, "tests: fix timestamp-related failures". * tests/aclocal5.test: Sleep before modifying m4 files that should trigger remake rules. This fixes an hard-to-hit timestamp-related race condition. * THANKS: Update. --- THANKS | 1 + tests/aclocal5.test | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/THANKS b/THANKS index e6730b4..b512b6b 100644 --- a/THANKS +++ b/THANKS @@ -194,6 +194,7 @@ Klaus Reichl klaus.rei...@alcatel.at Krzysztof Żelechowski giecr...@stegny.2a.pl L. Peter Deutsch gh...@aladdin.com Ladislav Strojil ladislav.stro...@seznam.cz +Larry Daniel la...@larrybrucedaniel.com Larry Jones larry.jo...@sdrc.com Lars Hecking lheck...@nmrc.ucc.ie Lars J. Aas la...@sim.no diff --git a/tests/aclocal5.test b/tests/aclocal5.test index b206587..ec032e4 100755 --- a/tests/aclocal5.test +++ b/tests/aclocal5.test @@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ $MAKE # updated, even from a sub-directory. Check that AU_ALIAS is # recognized. Change the definition of AM_TEST to check that its new # definition is used. +$sleep # Modified configure dependencies must be newer than config.status. echo 'AU_ALIAS([AM_TEST], [AC_SUBST])' > m4/moredefs.m4 cd sub $MAKE @@ -64,6 +65,7 @@ test -f $me-1.0/m4/moredefs.m4 # Change the definition of AM_TEST to check that its new definition is # used. Check that AC_DEFUN_ONCE is caught. +$sleep # Modified configure dependencies must be newer than config.status. echo 'AC_DEFUN_ONCE([AM_TEST], [AC_SUBST(__$1__)])' > m4/moredefs.m4 $MAKE grep 'm4/moredefs\.m4' aclocal.m4 -- 1.7.7.3
