When testing automake 1.15, the tests-environment-fd-redirect test hangs on RHEL 6.6 and CentOS 6.6 when testing ksh.
The ksh that is installed on the RHEL system is: % rpm -qi ksh Name : ksh Relocations: (not relocatable) Version : 20120801 Vendor: Red Hat, Inc. Release : 21.el6.1 Build Date: Thu 02 Oct 2014 11:53:05 AM EDT Install Date: Fri 06 Mar 2015 08:19:23 PM EST Build Host: x86-022.build.eng.bos.redhat.com Group : System Environment/Shells Source RPM: ksh-20120801-21.el6.1.src.rpm Size : 1738447 License: EPL Signature : RSA/8, Thu 09 Oct 2014 10:04:13 AM EDT, Key ID 199e2f91fd431d51 Packager : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla> URL : http://www.kornshell.com/ Summary : The Original ATT Korn Shell Description : KSH-93 is the most recent version of the KornShell by David Korn of AT&T Bell Laboratories. KornShell is a shell programming language, which is upward compatible with "sh" (the Bourne Shell). (That on the CentOS system is equivalent) To reproduce this behavior, unpack the automake tar ball in /tmp (so the paths below make sense). % ./configure % make % make check TESTS=t/tests-environment-fd-redirect make check-TESTS check-local make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/automake-1.15' make[2]: Entering directory `/tmp/automake-1.15' and it will hang. To debug further, kill the build via ^C, and it unfortunately deletes the log file: ^Cmake[2]: *** Deleting file `t/tests-environment-fd-redirect.log' ^Ctests-environment-fd-redirect: hard error: caught signal SIGINT make[2]: *** [t/tests-environment-fd-redirect.log] Error 130 make[1]: *** [check-TESTS] Interrupt make: *** [check-am] Interrupt but, t/tests-environment-fd-redirect.dir will have been initialized. So, % cd t/tests-environment-fd-redirect.dir % PATH='/tmp/automake-1.15/t/ax:'$PATH /bin/ksh ./configure CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/ksh checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking whether make supports nested variables... yes and it hangs. Thanks! Diab
