Bug#879020:

It's a bad test, please don't waste your time trying to debug it. It fails randomly on other platforms too, and upstream don't know why; ref https://debbugs.gnu.org/24503 You should probably just ignore/disable it.

Bug#879020: further info on emacs25 ftbfs on Alpha

I've been investigating this FTBFS of emacs25 on Alpha. Interestingly my manual build on one of the buildds built to completion. Running the test manually I cannot get it to fail. I am using invocations such as: ./debian/build-nox/src/emacs-25.2.2 -batch -L ./debian/build-src/test/automated/ -

Bug#879020: emacs25: FTBFS on alpha: eieio-test-37-obsolete-name-in-constructor FAILED

Source: emacs25 Version: 25.2+1-6 Severity: important Tags: upstream Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the past) User: debian-al...@lists.debian.org The latest build of emacs25 for alpha (admittedly not a release architecture) failed, per the below excerpts from