Re: [RFC] parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue

2011-01-20 Thread Stefano Lattarini
JFTR: this patch is flawed :-( See: (and following messages) for an explanation. Sorry for the noise, Stefano

Re: tests: work around Tru64 sh -e issues for instspc*.test.

2011-01-20 Thread Eric Blake
On 01/20/2011 02:04 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Hi Eric, > > * Eric Blake wrote on Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 10:01:15PM CET: >> On 01/20/2011 01:50 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: >>> Ahh, but it would have needed to be in that very patch, unfortunately. >>> As it is, my last patch fixed Tru64, but regress

Re: tests: work around Tru64 sh -e issues for instspc*.test.

2011-01-20 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Hello Ralf. On Thursday 20 January 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 07:56:20PM CET: > > * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 11:57:24PM CET: > > > On Tuesday 18 January 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > > > This patch fixes all but 9 of the

Re: tests: work around Tru64 sh -e issues for instspc*.test.

2011-01-20 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Eric, * Eric Blake wrote on Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 10:01:15PM CET: > On 01/20/2011 01:50 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > Ahh, but it would have needed to be in that very patch, unfortunately. > > As it is, my last patch fixed Tru64, but regressed NetBSD by roughly the > > same number of failures,

Re: tests: work around Tru64 sh -e issues for instspc*.test.

2011-01-20 Thread Eric Blake
On 01/20/2011 01:50 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Ahh, but it would have needed to be in that very patch, unfortunately. > As it is, my last patch fixed Tru64, but regressed NetBSD by roughly the > same number of failures, because `unset NOT_SET' fails there. But bash 2.05a would dump core on 'unse

Re: tests: work around Tru64 sh -e issues for instspc*.test.

2011-01-20 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 07:56:20PM CET: > * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 11:57:24PM CET: > > On Tuesday 18 January 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > > This patch fixes all but 9 of the 76 or so instspc*.test failures on > > > Tru64. It is for the tests-ini

tests: less strict double-colon spy.test.

2011-01-20 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
I wasn't completely sure about the documentation in spy.test, but a recheck shows that FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD make do not invoke both rules if the target is out of date wrt. both prerequisites. So let's make the spy less strict again so it has a chance to pass on all known systems at least.

[RFC] parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue (was: Re: bug#7868: splitting up test suites)

2011-01-20 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On Thursday 20 January 2011, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > Hello Ralf. > > On Wednesday 19 January 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > The testsuite is too large for MSYS. > > > Ouch. > > > We've finally reached the point where we have more than 1000 > > tests, $(TESTS) expands to 15k characters, and w

Re: [PATCH] {maint} tests: new subroutines for test skipping/failing

2011-01-20 Thread Jim Meyering
Ralf Wildenhues wrote: ... >> > > +# This is useful when using automake's parallel tests mode, to print >> > > +# the reason for skip/failure to console, rather than to the .log files. >> > > +: ${stderr_fileno_=2} >> > > + >> > > +warn_() { echo "$@" 1>&$stderr_fileno_; } >> > > +fail_() { warn_ "