Bernhard Voelker <m...@bernhard-voelker.de> skribis: > On 01/11/2014 11:40 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> An i686-linux-gnu build of Coreutils 8.21 with Guix failed like this >> (see <http://hydra.gnu.org/build/34068/nixlog/1/raw>): >> >> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- >> FAIL: test-fdutimensat (exit: 134) >> ================================== >> >> test-lutimens.h:64: assertion failed >> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- >> >> There’ve been reports of flakiness before, in particular: >> >> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2013-04/msg00076.html >> >> What would you recommend to solve the issue? > > The reason was a race in gnulib's nap.h which has been fixed with: > http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/commit/?id=439b0e925f > > For maintaining in a distribution, I'd recommend > * upgrading to coreutils-8.22, or > * patching nap.h for the tests to succeed, or > * skipping the affected tests.
OK, thanks for the info! We’ll actually upgrade Coreutils. Ludo’.
