[ccan] altstack causing travis-ci failures

[David Gibson]

On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 10:06:51PM +0000, Dan Good wrote:
> David did some remarkable investigation into it about a month ago.  The
> code has always worked on the Red Hat based distros I use, and David
> patched it to work for Ubuntu 12.04; so it seems unlikely to me that any
> real person would be affected.  I suppose I'll try to talk to the Travis
> people about the specifics of their environment.

Yeah, working out why it is failing under Travis is a real pain.  I'm
actually tempted to add altstack to MODS_EXCLUDE so it doesn't break
the travis builds any more.  It's kind of nasty, but then all the
things in MODS_EXCLUDE are a bit nasty.

> On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 10:14 AM Andrew Jeffery <andrew at aj.id.au> wrote:
> 
> > Hey Dan,
> >
> > I'm seeing a ccanlint failure for altstack on Travis-CI, e.g[1]:
> >
> >     ...
> >     tools/ccanlint/ccanlint --deps-fail-ignore -s ccan/aga
> >     tools/ccanlint/ccanlint --deps-fail-ignore -s ccan/agar
> >     agar: Total score: 36/38
> >     tools/ccanlint/ccanlint --deps-fail-ignore -s ccan/altstack
> >     altstack: Total score: 31/36 FAIL!
> >     make: *** [summary-check-altstack] Error 1
> >     tools/ccanlint/ccanlint --deps-fail-ignore -s ccan/antithread
> >     aga: Total score: 48/50
> >     ...
> >
> > FWIW I haven't had this happen when running `make check` on my machine.
> > I ended up pushing the changes I was testing as the failure wasn't
> > related and wasn't something I could trigger locally (the commit tested
> > above is currently at the tip of master), but thought it would be
> > useful to highlight that something strange appears to be happening with
> > the altstack module, at least on Travis-CI.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Andrew
> >
> > [1] https://travis-ci.org/amboar/ccan/jobs/118466416#L534

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