Re: make check(s) pre-release problems

[Frederic Berat]

Hello,

I don't know if that will help, or if that is completely unrelated, but I'm
currently stumbling into a weird issue while working on a new package
release for autoconf on Fedora: about 200 tests are now failing, all
related to aclocal checks.
My current investigation shows that it would be related to a bash update
from 5.1.x to 5.2x which seems to have changed the behavior of the "SHLVL"
shell variable.

I actually wonder if your sudden "parallelism" failure could be somehow
linked to an update of bash, similar to mine ?

Fred.

On Fri, Oct 7, 2022 at 6:11 PM Zack Weinberg <zack@owlfolio.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 6, 2022, at 4:25 PM, Karl Berry wrote:
> > No errors on RHEL7+autoconf2.71
> >
> > Puzzling. Can you easily try RHEL8 or one of its derivatives?
> > It surprises me that that is the culprit, but it seems possible.
>
> Unfortunately, no.  CMU is mostly an Ubuntu shop these days.  It's only
> dumb luck that I happen to have access to a machine that hasn't had a major
> system upgrade since 2012 (and with my day-job hat on I'm actively trying
> to *get* it upgraded -- to Ubuntu.)
>
> zw
>
>