usr.bin/make: document probabilities for random test failures

Side node: this test will never fail between 2024-04-15 and 2024-07-06.
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rillig 2020-01-07 22:42:14 +00:00
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# $NetBSD: modorder.mk,v 1.1 2014/08/21 13:44:51 apb Exp $
# $NetBSD: modorder.mk,v 1.2 2020/01/07 22:42:14 rillig Exp $
LIST= one two three four five six seven eight nine ten
LISTX= ${LIST:Ox}
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@echo "LIST:O = ${LIST:O}"
# Note that 1 in every 10! trials two independently generated
# randomized orderings will be the same. The test framework doesn't
# support checking probabilistic output, so we accept that the test
# will incorrectly fail with probability 2.8E-7.
# support checking probabilistic output, so we accept that each of the
# 3 :Ox tests will incorrectly fail with probability 2.756E-7, which
# lets the whole test fail once in 1.209.600 runs, on average.
@echo "LIST:Ox = `test '${LIST:Ox}' != '${LIST:Ox}' ${TEST_RESULT}`"
@echo "LIST:O:Ox = `test '${LIST:O:Ox}' != '${LIST:O:Ox}' ${TEST_RESULT}`"
@echo "LISTX = `test '${LISTX}' != '${LISTX}' ${TEST_RESULT}`"