Re: Testsuite races

[Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>]

> It looks like it's just tst-codeset, tst-gettext3 and tst-gettext5 which 
> conflict on ${objpfx}domaindir/de_DE/LC_MESSAGES/codeset.mo
> 
> Changing the .sh file to look like:
> 
> (
>    flock 200
>    [ generate data & run test ]
> ) 200>${objpfx}lockfile
> 
> In each of the three tests seems to do the trick.  Similarly creating a 
> dependency in the Makefile where tst-gettext3.out depends on 
> tst-codeset.out and tst-gettext5.out depends on tst-gettext3.out works 
> just as well.

The right answer is to have makefile rules to generate .../codeset.mo
and have each of those .out targets depend on the file directly.

With that, it looks like these tests won't need shell script wrappers at
all, just the vanilla pattern rule should dtrt.


Thanks,
Roland