Re: make check(s) pre-release problems

2022-10-06 Thread Karl Berry
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. I'm using autoconf-2.71, make-4.3, etc., compiled from source, but am using the OS-provided coreutils. I think I'll try compiling that

Re: make check(s) pre-release problems

2022-10-06 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Thu, Oct 6, 2022, at 1:04 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote: > On 2022-10-04 6:58 PM, Karl Berry wrote: >> Perhaps easier to debug: there are two targets to be run before making a >> release, check-no-trailing-backslash-in-recipes and check-cc-no-c-o, >> to try to ensure no reversion wrt these features. A

Re: make check(s) pre-release problems

2022-10-06 Thread Zack Weinberg
On 2022-10-04 6:58 PM, Karl Berry wrote: With Zack's latest Python fixes, I was hoping to move towards an Automake release, but I find myself stymied by apparently random and unreproducible test failures. I haven't exhausted every conceivable avenue yet, but I thought I would write in hopes that

Re: make check(s) pre-release problems

2022-10-06 Thread Sam James
> On 4 Oct 2022, at 23:58, Karl Berry wrote: > > With Zack's latest Python fixes, I was hoping to move towards an > Automake release, but I find myself stymied by apparently random and > unreproducible test failures. I haven't exhausted every conceivable > avenue yet, but I thought I would writ

Re: make check(s) pre-release problems

2022-10-06 Thread Paul Smith
On Wed, 2022-10-05 at 15:24 -0600, Karl Berry wrote: > What troubles me most is that there's no obvious way to debug any > test failure involving parallelism, since they go away with serial > execution. Any ideas about how to determine what is going wrong in > the parallel make?  Any way to make p