Re: [GENERAL] gmake check error on HPUX

Okay, I ran 'gmake SHELL=/bin/ksh check' ten times, and nine of those
times there were no errors; on the one that failed, it was on random
again.The one time it failed was in the middle of the ten times; that
is, it ran with no failures five times, failed on the sixth, and then
the remaining four times had no failures.  So...what, if anything, does
this mean?  Do I have a problem?

Neil Conway wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 15:16, Petre Scheie wrote:
>
>>Yes, I ran the tests again and got the same thing.
>
>
> Ok, if you run the tests repeatedly (say, 10 times), do they continue to
> fail every time? If so, what unexpected output is produced? (i.e. what's
> in regression.diffs)
>
> The reason I'm skeptical of there being a bug here is that the test is
> supposed to take a 1000 tuple table and produce "about" every tenth row
> (the function that decides when to include a tuple in the result set
> uses a PSRNG). In your case, it's producing about 13% of the table
> (rather than between 8% and 12%, as the regression tests expect).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Neil