Re: testsuite results from master

[Stefano Lattarini]

On Sunday 14 November 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Hello Stefano,
> 
> I think it is time to reevaluate some of the work that has been done in
> the last few weeks.  I'd like to ask you to postpone pushes of pending
> stuff that has a clock ticking, and look at the lots of new failures
> that a testsuite run shows on a few hosts; you can find them in some
> minutes on <http://autobuild.josefsson.org/automake/>.

Log:
 <http://autobuild.josefsson.org/automake/log-201011141903417895000.txt>

Minimal system info:
 configure: autobuild project... GNU Automake
 configure: autobuild revision... v1.11-225-gcdd3cf3
 configure: autobuild hostname... hikaru
 configure: autobuild mode... default
 configure: autobuild timestamp... 20111412T185841Z
 checking build system type... sparc-sun-solaris2.10

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 All the testsuite failures seem spurious, and due to the following
 rm error (in the "distclean" target, if I'm not mistaken):
   "rm: Unable to remove directory ...: File exists"
 
 What's going on here?

 Maybe NFS issues (wild guess)?
  
<http://www.unix.com/unix-dummies-questions-answers/72080-rm-unable-remove-directory-mnt-users-test-logs-file-exists.html>

 Or something relate to FS logging or FS corruption (wilder guess)?
  <http://www.webservertalk.com/archive101-2004-1-65261.html>

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I can say I test automake on a Solaris 10 system quite often, and the
testsuite is behaving quite well there (apart from some pre-existing,
mostly spurious failures).

Regards,
  Stefano