bug#49078: dejagnu-1.6.3 test failure

[balducci]

> Efforts to trace this in the (Expect) code are in progress.  What 
> distributions are each of you running?

linuxfromscratch

> Does the problem disappear if you build and test in a separate directory?

I confirm that building in a separate directory makes the problem go away

I can add, if it can help, that I've been building in-tree since quite
a lot without ever seeing this problem

thanks a lot for spending time to look into this

ciao
-g