output-sync test can fail due to race condition

2020-01-23 Thread Christian Weisgerber
GNU make 4.3 I have been struggling with test suite failures on OpenBSD/arm64. Specifically, the output-sync test frequently shows failures. I have attached the work directory from such a test run. After closer examination, I think the failures are due to a race condition in the test itself. It

output-sync test mistake?

2020-01-23 Thread Christian Weisgerber
GNU make 4.3 There is some suspicious code in tests/scripts/features/output-sync that looks like a copy-and-paste error. Note that changing it also breaks one of the tests run there because the output order changes. Is this an actual mistake? Maybe I should try to understand the logic of the te