Re: Testsuite failures on HP-UX 11.23 (was: Re: testsuite results from master)

[Stefano Lattarini]

Reference:
 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-11/msg00162.html>

[For the sake of the reading this message "in real-time": this reply
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 "Testsuite failures on IRIX 6.5"]

> 
> FAIL: distlinksbrk.test (exit: 1)
> =================================
> 
> > /tmp/am/build-hppa2.0w-hp-hpux11.23/tests:/tmp/local/hppa2.0w-hp-hpux11.23/bin
> > :/tmp/bin:/opt/aCC/bin:/opt/ansic/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin/X11
> > :/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/contrib/bin/X11:/usr/vue/bin:/opt/imake/bin
> > + pwd
> > /tmp/am/build-hppa2.0w-hp-hpux11.23/tests/distlinksbrk.dir
> > + set -e
> > + lnk_base=BrknSymlnk
> > + lnk1=BrknSymlnk__001
> > + lnk2=BrknSymlnk__002
> > + lnka=BrknSymlnk__aaa
> > + lnkb=BrknSymlnk__bbb
> > + ln -s nonesuch BrknSymlnk__001
> > + pwd
> > + ln -s /tmp/am/build-hppa2.0w-hp-hpux11.23/tests/distlinksbrk.dir/nonesuch 
> > BrknSymlnk__002
> > + ln -s BrknSymlnk__001 BrknSymlnk__aaa
> > + ln -s BrknSymlnk__aaa BrknSymlnk__bbb
> > + test ! -r BrknSymlnk__001
> > + test ! -r BrknSymlnk__002
> > + test ! -r BrknSymlnk__aaa
> > + test ! -r BrknSymlnk__bbb
> > + test -h BrknSymlnk__001
> > + test -h BrknSymlnk__002
> > + test -h BrknSymlnk__aaa
> > + test -h BrknSymlnk__bbb
> > + cat
> > + 1>> configure.in 0< /var/tmp/sh13163.8
> > + cat
> > + 1> Makefile.am 0<<
> > EXTRA_DIST = BrknSymlnk__001 BrknSymlnk__002 BrknSymlnk__aaa BrknSymlnk__bbb
> > + ls -l
> > total 18
> > lrwxrwxr-x   1 rwild      rwild            8 Nov 12 20:16 BrknSymlnk__001 
> > -> nonesuch
> > lrwxrwxr-x   1 rwild      rwild           74 Nov 12 20:16 BrknSymlnk__002 
> > -> /tmp/am/build-hppa2.0w-hp-hpux11.23/tests/distlinksbrk.dir/nonesuch
> > lrwxrwxr-x   1 rwild      rwild           15 Nov 12 20:16 BrknSymlnk__aaa 
> > -> BrknSymlnk__001
> > lrwxrwxr-x   1 rwild      rwild           15 Nov 12 20:16 BrknSymlnk__bbb 
> > -> BrknSymlnk__aaa
> > -rw-rw-r--   1 rwild      rwild           77 Nov 12 20:16 Makefile.am
> > -rw-rw-r--   1 rwild      rwild           86 Nov 12 20:16 configure.in
> > -rwxr-xr-x   1 rwild      rwild        20001 Nov 12 20:16 depcomp
> > -rwxr-xr-x   1 rwild      rwild        13781 Nov 12 20:16 install-sh
> > -rwxr-xr-x   1 rwild      rwild        11419 Nov 12 20:16 missing
> > + aclocal-1.11a -Werror
> > + autoconf
> > + automake-1.11a --foreign -Werror -Wall
> > + ./configure
> > checking for a BSD-compatible install... ./install-sh -c
> > checking whether build environment is sane... yes
> > checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... ./install-sh -c -d
> > checking for gawk... no
> > checking for mawk... no
> > checking for nawk... no
> > checking for awk... awk
> > checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
> > checking that generated files are newer than configure... done
> > configure: creating ./config.status
> > config.status: creating Makefile
> > + make distdir
> > No suffix list.
> ?!?  What is this?
> 
> > Make: Don't know how to make BrknSymlnk__001.  Stop.
> > + make -k distdir
> > + 1> out 2>& 1
> > + :
> > + cat out
> > No suffix list.
> > Make: Don't know how to make BrknSymlnk__001.  Stop.
> Just an error message instead of four?  Might this be a "make -k" bug?
>

I've now installed a patch for this; see git commit v1.11-135-g2f8861f
"distlinksbrk.test: Work around botched 'make -k'", and the message on
automake-patches:
  <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-12/msg00121.html>

I'm not sure if that really solves the problem above, though.  If anyone
can do proper testing, please let me know what the results are.

Regards,
   Stefano