Do color-tests2.sh and color-tests2-w.sh both write to the same
directory and, thus, running in parallel may have caused them to be
writing to the same file(s) at the same time?
Every test runs in its own t/*.dir/ directory. The ct2-w.sh test
sources the ct2.sh shell script, but it's
Hi, Karl. As you suspected, this was an issue of making in parallel. This was
with the old make 3.81: my MAKEFLAGS is set to "-k -j12"; unsetting MAKEFLAGS
and running works fine, with all tests passing.
Do color-tests2.sh and color-tests2-w.sh both write to the same directory and,
thus, runn
Hi Erik,
* color-tests2.sh and color-tests2-w.sh fail -- logs attached.
Is this with the old make 3.81 from the system, or the new make you
compiled? What is in the "stdout" file in t/color-tests2.dir/stdout?
And, are these the only two tests that fail in the entire suite?
What I see in the
* fine on the tests that failed previously because of macOS default
make having only second resolution
Great! Thanks much for the instant testing.
* color-tests2.sh and color-tests2-w.sh fail -- logs attached.
I had tweaked some of the color stuff, so I must have messed up
somewher
Thanks, Karl. I wasn't sure what version was to be patched but it looks like
the current git repository has those changes, so I tested that with the macOS
make:
* fine on the tests that failed previously because of macOS default make having
only second resolution
* color-tests2.sh and color-tes
Hi Erik and all - I (finally) made the change below to have automake
test for a make that doesn't support subsecond mtimes even when the rest
of the system is ok, as you noted happens with the make-3.81 shipped by
macOS.
I installed make-3.8.1 on my Rocky 9 system, but it did not cause the
lossage
Those square brackets are M4 quotes to prevent M4 from expanding
$* and $2 itself.
Ah, right. Of course. Good!
The $[*] especially confused me. Just looks so perfectly like an array
reference of some strange kind :). I think it would be a tiny bit
clearer to use $[]*? Or am I missing some
On Tue, Jan 30, 2024, at 6:32 PM, Karl Berry wrote:
> test "$[*]" != "X conftest.ts1 conftest.ts2" ||
> ..
> test "$[]2" = conftest.ts3 &&
> ..
> etc.
>
> I've never seen anything like that before.
Oh! Those square brackets are M4 quotes to prevent M4 from expanding $* and $2
itself.
zw
(Off-topic for the original bug, but for the sake of public discussion ...)
Hi Zack,
It is absolutely not *supposed* to be using shell arrays.
I guess it's not an array. It's the square bracket syntax that confuses
me. A couple of examples from the fn in sanity.m4:
test "$[*]" != "X confte
On 30/1/24 22:46, Erik A Johnson wrote:
(Why, then, does Apple continue to include 3.81 in the software 18 years later?
Beyond me.)
Probably because 3.81 was the last version released under GPLv2 or later
and IIRC Apple avoids shipping things that are licensed with GPLv3.
Cheers,
Peter
On Tue, Jan 30, 2024, at 7:46 AM, Erik A Johnson wrote:
> I found the problem! The default GNU make on macOS (even Sonoma) is
> 3.81 from 2006! The configure script for GNU make versions <4.0 did
> not have the right test for subsecond resolution in the macOS stat()
> function, so 3.81 was built
I'm guessing the Mac (and its sleep command?) do support subsecond
mtimes in reality.
echo a > 1 && echo b > 2 && echo c > 3 && ls -t [123]
consistently gives me the correct order (3 2 1).
The macOS version of stat has a mtime_nsec field that is fully populated and
the file modification
I found the problem! The default GNU make on macOS (even Sonoma) is 3.81 from
2006! The configure script for GNU make versions <4.0 did not have the right
test for subsecond resolution in the macOS stat() function, so 3.81 was built
with resolution only to the second, not subsecond, thus needi
On Mon, Jan 29, 2024, at 6:00 PM, Karl Berry wrote:
> But, looking at that code, I belatedly see that shell arrays are being
> used. At least I think so.
It is absolutely not *supposed* to be using shell arrays. If it is, that was a
mistake on my part.
zw
Hi Erik - following up on your final comment in #68119:
P.P.S. It still needs
export am_cv_sleep_fractional_seconds=false
to correctly run the tests on macOS. Without that, 75-90 tests fail.
Maybe we can try to figure out why the code that tries to automatically
discern wheth
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