Re: test failures on MirBSD

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Thorsten,

here's a bug report for you:
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.bugs/7590>

* Eric Blake wrote on Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 04:06:14PM CEST:
> Over the weekend, I installed MirBSD.  Out of the box, it includes
> only automake-1.4 and a wrapper script 'automake' that has some
> pretty nasty behavior:
> 
> $ automake --version
> Provide an AUTOMAKE_VERSION environment variable, please
> $ echo $?
> 0

Looks like that was carried over from OpenBSD:
<http://cvs.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-wrapper?full=yes&numbers=6407>

> $ AUTOMAKE_VERSION=1.4 automake --version | head -n1
> automake (GNU automake) 1.4-p6

Yeah.  :-/

> The Mir Ports project also includes automake 1.9.6, but that's the
> extent of pre-compiled builds provided by the distro.  (Obviously,
> they aren't aware of the security bugs in only providing such old
> versions).

Yep.

> At any rate, this causes spurious test suite failures in 2.67:
> 
> 35: tools.at:1162 autom4te preselections
> 243: torture.at:1399 Configuring subdirectories
> 248: torture.at:1780 Unusual Automake inupt files
> 
> All because the --version succeeded but didn't include a valid
> version number.  I'll have to figure out a way to skip these tests
> in the face of MirBSD's broken automake wrapper script.

For Automake, I've decided to not bother.  This is a bug in the system
that deserves attention, not being hidden.

> By the way, MirBSD's stock autoconf is equally broken in the same
> manner (and the valid pre-installed choices there are 2.13 and 2.61,
> and lack of AUTOCONF_VERSION in the environment gives 0 exit status
> without a valid version string).

Yep.  OpenBSD, too.

Cheers,
Ralf