Re: Test failure in Ubuntu 22.04 and 22.10 (new test)

[David Bremner <david@tethera.net>]

Gianfranco Costamagna <locutusofborg@debian.org> writes:

> Hello, the test is now failing in Ubuntu 22.04 (last LTS), when run with parallel > 1
>
> (version 0.37)
>
> e.g. here you can see a build fail
>
> /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/test/test-lib.sh: line 904: ./test19: No such file or directory
> make[2]: *** read jobs pipe: Bad file descriptor.  Stop.
> make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> lto-wrapper: fatal error: make returned 2 exit status
>
>
> https://launchpadlibrarian.net/627359226/buildlog_ubuntu-kinetic-amd64.notmuch_0.37-1ubuntu3_BUILDING.txt.gz
>
> Running dh_auto_test with --no-parallel flag works as workaround, and using last gmame from Debian doesn't fix the issue
> (you can see in the above build log the version that is used Get:2 http://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/costamagnagianfranco/locutusofborg-ppa/ubuntu kinetic/main amd64 libgmime-3.0-0 amd64 3.2.13+dfsg-2 [177 kB] )
>
>
> Looks like all the tests using test_private_C function are failing, but I can't figure out where its the race-condition.

It's especially puzzling as make -j$(whatever) should not enable running
the test suite in parallel, only the presence of (GNU|moreutils)
parallel. So it's like something is cleaning up after the test suite too
early.\r