Intermittent parallel test failures

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Bob, all,

as I noted earlier in
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.patches/5563/focus=5786>,
there are intermittent test failures for the parallel tests.  These
failures also show up in the build bot output:
<http://buildbot.proulx.com:9003/>
<http://buildbot.proulx.com:9003/i686%20gnu-linux/builds/909/step-test/0>
<http://buildbot.proulx.com:9003/amd64%20gnu-linux/builds/878/step-test/0>

I am trying to find out
1) whether the exact failure on your systems is the same that I saw,
2) what differences there are to the system I have where I do not see
   any failures.

For (1), would it be possible to include tests/testsuite.log in the
logged state for a failed test suite?  Thanks.

For (2), it would be nice to know a bit more about the systems.  Which
shell (and version) do the systems use?  Which kernel version?  Are they
dual or uniprocessor/-core systems?  Also, it looks to me like the amd64
one prints system info that looks like it's an x86:
<http://buildbot.proulx.com:9003/amd64%20gnu-linux>

Thanks for this very helpful service!

Cheers,
Ralf