On 11/25/2022 5:25 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Are the tests supposed to be portable?

In theory, they should be. Apparently they aren't in practice.

> All of them fail due to some timeout:
> 
>    Test server-tests/emacsclient/create-frame backtrace:
>      signal(ert-test-failed ("timed out waiting for (length= (frame-list)
>      ert-fail("timed out waiting for (length= (frame-list) 2) to ...")
> 
> so this sounds like some fundamental issue common to all those tests.

Hm, it looks like the emacsclient may not be starting up correctly. 
Could you try the attached patch? I doubt this will fix the tests, but 
hopefully you'll get some more-useful error messages.