tests: fix false failure in recent test adjustment

* configure.ac: Comment on why we link rather than run the test,
and remove the moot __ELF__ check since we never ran it anyway,
and the new CFLAGS and LDFLAGS are a more direct test of support.
* tests/misc/wc-parallel.sh: Fix a syntax error in the previous change.
* tests/misc/md5sum-parallel.sh: Use better error checking, consistent
with that used in wc-parallel.sh.

2 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/tests/misc/md5sum-parallel.sh b/tests/misc/md5sum-parallel.sh
index 86f5af76f..2a526bdf2 100755
--- a/tests/misc/md5sum-parallel.sh
+++ b/tests/misc/md5sum-parallel.sh
@@ -20,13 +20,17 @@
 . "${srcdir=.}/tests/init.sh"; path_prepend_ ./src
 print_ver_ md5sum
 
+xargs -P2 </dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1 \
+  || skip_ 'xargs -P is required'
+
 (mkdir tmp && cd tmp && seq 500 | xargs touch)
 
 # This will output at least 16KiB per process
 # and start 3 processes, with 2 running concurrently,
 # which triggers often on Fedora 11 at least.
-(find tmp tmp tmp -type f | xargs -n500 -P2 md5sum) |
+(find tmp tmp tmp -type f | xargs -n500 -P2 md5sum 2>err) |
 sed -n '/[0-9a-f]\{32\}  /!p' |
 grep . > /dev/null && fail=1
+compare /dev/null err || fail=1
 
 Exit $fail
diff --git a/tests/misc/wc-parallel.sh b/tests/misc/wc-parallel.sh
index 98c36b9fa..19497e047 100755
--- a/tests/misc/wc-parallel.sh
+++ b/tests/misc/wc-parallel.sh
@@ -20,9 +20,8 @@
 . "${srcdir=.}/tests/init.sh"; path_prepend_ ./src
 print_ver_ wc
 
-if xargs -P2 </dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1
-  skip_ 'xargs -P is required'
-fi
+xargs -P2 </dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1 \
+  || skip_ 'xargs -P is required'
 
 (mkdir tmp && cd tmp && seq 2000 | xargs touch)