Bug 197366

Summary:	sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r3 needs an aclocal7.test fix from 1.9.6 (fails about 1 in 3 runs)
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Joe Millenbach <jmillenbach>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Joe Millenbach 2007-10-29 04:55:32 UTC

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:

Comment 1 Joe Millenbach 2007-11-01 00:24:09 UTC

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.

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2007-12-24 12:55:25 UTC

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