Re: Testsuite failures on Solaris 2.10 on SPARC (was: testsuite results from master)

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 11:05:55PM CET:
>  <http://autobuild.josefsson.org/automake/log-201011141903417895000.txt>

>  checking build system type... sparc-sun-solaris2.10

>  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)?

Yes, these are NFS-related.  E.g., acloca13.test has leftover files
.nfs6E44 and .nfs7E44 in tests/acloca13.dir/acloca13-1.0
which correspond to install-sh and configure (or configure.lineno).

This test fails reproducibly.  I cannot remove the files after the
tests have ended.  So I suspect that these are file system issues
that I don't have under control.

Hmm.  This host has 2 failures on 2009-04-19, 36 on 2009-12-06, and
43 now.  That's not a good sign, whether it is a system issue or
Automake one.

Cheers,
Ralf