These tests are known to fail, so disable them. It's not problem just on Alpine, Julia also disabled libunwind tests in their Makefile. --- a/Makefile.in +++ b/Makefile.in @@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ ETAGS = etags CTAGS = ctags CSCOPE = cscope -DIST_SUBDIRS = src tests doc +DIST_SUBDIRS = src doc DISTFILES = $(DIST_COMMON) $(DIST_SOURCES) $(TEXINFOS) $(EXTRA_DIST) distdir = $(PACKAGE)-$(VERSION) top_distdir = $(distdir)