I hit a test failure that wasn't expected in the sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r3 package. Investigating on the internet there was a fix in 1.9.6 that can be backported to fix this intermittent failure. It is related to a file being created too close to when it is evaluated for some condition. Both the following URL's mention the same fix... http://osdir.com/ml/sysutils.automake.bugs/2006-09/msg00012.html http://www.nabble.com/Fix-latent-failures-of-aclocal7.test-t1492375.html I'd be more specific but I haven't tried to update a patch before, or submit a new ebuild, etc... Reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce:
I just hit this on our sys-devel/automake-1.9.6-r2 build on ~x86 (both are on same machine). Guess both ebuilds need it.
ive added the change i think you're after to cvs http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-devel/automake/automake-1.8.5-r3.ebuild?r1=1.15&r2=1.16 http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-devel/automake/automake-1.9.6-r2.ebuild?r1=1.15&r2=1.16 http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-devel/automake/files/automake-1.9.6-aclocal7-test-sleep.patch?rev=1.1
