From: Himani Ramesh Barde <[email protected]>

randtest performs autocorrelation analysis on random number sequences
and fails intermittently on overloaded CI/autobuilder systems where
CPU scheduling and floating point conditions vary between runs.

An upstream fix was previously merged (ccabae3036a7) to improve sigma
threshold handling, but the test failed again on qemux86-64-musl-ptest
on 2026-07-21 with 'Tau= 162, Autocorr= 5.15181 sigma'.

The test is inherently unsuitable for shared overloaded build
infrastructure. Skip it, consistent with how 'time' and 'timeout'
are already handled.

[YOCTO #16254]

Signed-off-by: Himani Barde <[email protected]>
---
 meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk_5.4.1.bb | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk_5.4.1.bb 
b/meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk_5.4.1.bb
index 56930498e3..89b73a1641 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk_5.4.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk_5.4.1.bb
@@ -80,7 +80,10 @@ do_install_ptest() {
        # https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14371
        rm -f ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/test/time.*
        rm -f ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/test/timeout.*
-       for t in time timeout; do
+       # randtest is a statistical test that intermittently fails on 
overloaded systems
+       # https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16254
+       rm -f ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/test/randtest.*
+       for t in time timeout randtest; do
                echo $t >> ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/test/skipped.txt
        done
 }
-- 
2.54.0

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