Re: Solaris 8: runaway processes in check

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Paul.

* Paul Eggert wrote on Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 01:29:12AM CEST:
> Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Another way to provoke the runaway is to
> >   env TESTS='../../../coreutils-5.96/tests/misc/sort' make -e check
> >
> > but it doesn't happen with GNU make.  
> 
> I can reproduce the problem even with GNU make (3.80).

Hmm.  Me too, now, so I wonder what led me to above, obviously wrong
statement.  Maybe this: with GNU make, you never get into the situation
that `make check' expands a test into $(srcdir)/test, since its VPATH
handling is sane.

* Paul Eggert wrote on Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 03:50:40AM CEST:
> By analogy with other test scripts I found that the following patch
> fixes the problem for me, but I don't know why (nor do I know why
> $ENV{PROG} lines are in some test scripts but not all) so I haven't
> installed this.
> 
> 2006-06-01  Paul Eggert  <address@hidden>
> 
>       * tests/misc/sort: Set $ENV{PROG} to 'sort', to fix a problem
>       with runaway processes on Solaris 8 reported by Ralf Wildenues in:
>       http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2006-05/msg00178.html

This patch makes it work for me, too.  (Sorry, I haven't had a chance to
look into the perl at all; I'm using the native 5.005_03, too.)

With this patch, `make -e check' finishes with Solaris make.  (List of
failures still to be posted.)`

Cheers,
Ralf