Re: gawk 5.1.1 testsuite failures

[arnold]

> >> It is a race condition, thus a broken test.
> >
> > I am not so sure. BUT, I will double check with a debugger.
>
> It comes and goes, which is a clear indication of a race condition.

OK - I thought about this some more and I think I see where the
race is.

> > Looking at opensuse.org I see "Tumbleweed" and I see "Leap".
> > Which one should I install if I want to reproduce on a local VM?
>
> Easiest if you use osc (https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:OSC) to do a
> local build of
> <https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:Andreas_Schwab:Factory/gawk>.
> The error happens while building on Factory aka Tumbleweed.

I really need to be able to edit test files, run a debugger, etc; I
need hands-on access.  It's not that hard (in theory) to spin up a VM
with OpenSUSE, so I'll try it.

Thanks,

Arnold