tests: remove too-brittle test tap-realtime.sh

* t/tap-realtime.sh: Delete.  It has always been brittle, but now
it's also causing spurious failures when mawk is used as the awk
implementation in tap-driver.sh (see bug#14601).
* t/list-of-tests.mk: Adjust.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

2 files changed, 0 insertions, 128 deletions

diff --git a/t/list-of-tests.mk b/t/list-of-tests.mk
index 75f303a24..462497ee3 100644
--- a/t/list-of-tests.mk
+++ b/t/list-of-tests.mk
@@ -1149,7 +1149,6 @@ t/tap-planskip-whitespace.sh \
 t/tap-planskip-badexit.sh \
 t/tap-planskip-bailout.sh \
 t/tap-planskip-later-errors.sh \
-t/tap-realtime.sh \
 t/tap-test-number-0.sh \
 t/tap-recheck-logs.sh \
 t/tap-result-comment.sh \
diff --git a/t/tap-realtime.sh b/t/tap-realtime.sh
deleted file mode 100644
index e9b2b0c3b..000000000
--- a/t/tap-realtime.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,127 +0,0 @@
-#! /bin/sh
-# Copyright (C) 2011-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
-#
-# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
-# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
-# any later version.
-#
-# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-# GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-
-# TAP support:
-#  - testsuite progress on console should happen mostly "in real time";
-#    i.e., it's not acceptable for the driver to wait the end of the
-#    script to start displaying results from it.
-# FIXME: this test uses expect(1) to ensure line buffering from make and
-# children, and is pretty hacky and complex; is there a better way to
-# accomplish the checks done here?
-
-. test-init.sh
-
-cat >expect-check <<'END'
-eval spawn $env(SHELL) -c ":"
-expect eof
-END
-expect -f expect-check || {
-    echo "$me: failed to find a working expect program" >&2
-    exit 77
-}
-rm -f expect-check
-
-# Unfortunately, some make implementations (among them, FreeBSD make,
-# NetBSD make, and Solaris Distributed make), when run in parallel mode,
-# serialize the output from their targets' recipes unconditionally.  In
-# such a situation, there's no way the partial results of a TAP test can
-# be displayed until the test has terminated.  And this is not something
-# our TAP driver script can work around; in fact, the driver *is* sending
-# out its output progressively and "in sync" with test execution -- it is
-# make that is stowing such output away instead of presenting it to the
-# user as soon as it gets it.
-if ! using_gmake; then
-  case $MAKE in
-    *\ -j*) skip_ "doesn't work with non-GNU concurrent make";;
-  esac
-  # Prevent Sun Distributed Make from trying to run in parallel.
-  DMAKE_MODE=serial; export DMAKE_MODE
-fi
-
-cat > Makefile.am << 'END'
-TESTS = all.test
-AM_COLOR_TESTS= no
-END
-
-. tap-setup.sh
-
-cat > all.test <<'END'
-#! /bin/sh
-echo 1..3
-
-# Creative quoting to placate maintainer-check.
-sleep="sleep "3
-
-# The awk+shell implementation of the TAP driver must "read ahead" of one
-# line in order to catch the exit status of the test script it runs.  So
-# be sure to echo one "dummy" line after each result line in order not to
-# cause false positives.
-
-echo ok 1 - foo
-echo DUMMY
-$sleep
-test -f ok-1 || { echo 'Bail out!'; exit 1; }
-
-echo ok 2 - bar
-echo DUMMY
-$sleep
-test -f ok-2 || { echo 'Bail out!'; exit 1; }
-
-echo ok 3 - baz
-echo DUMMY
-$sleep
-test -f ok-3 || { echo 'Bail out!'; exit 1; }
-
-: > all-is-well
-END
-
-chmod a+x all.test
-
-cat > expect-make <<'END'
-eval spawn $env(MAKE) check
-expect {
-  "PASS: all.test 1 - foo" {
-    open "ok-1" "w"
-    exp_continue
-  }
-  "PASS: all.test 2 - bar" {
-    open "ok-2" "w"
-    exp_continue
-  }
-  "PASS: all.test 3 - baz" {
-    open "ok-3" "w"
-    exp_continue
-  }
-  "Testsuite summary" {
-    exit 0
-  }
-  timeout {
-    puts "expect timed out"
-    exit 1
-  }
-  default {
-    puts "expect error"
-    exit 1
-  }
-}
-END
-
-# Expect should simulate a tty as stdout, which should ensure a
-# line-buffered output.
-MAKE=$MAKE expect -f expect-make
-test -f all-is-well
-
-: