Re: Automake-1.8.3: Test failure - instspc.test

[Michael Deutschmann]

On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, you wrote:
> >>> "Michael" == Michael Deutschmann <address@hidden> writes:
>
>  Michael> I noticed a failure on "make check" when compiling the
>  Michael> latest automake version, 1.8.3.  It was on the test
>  Michael> "instspc.test", which appears to test the new feature
>  Michael> of support for space characters in installation paths.
>
> Thanks for the report.  Could you send the output of
>
>   cd tests
>   ./instspc.test

I did that -- however looking at the output I could tell immediately that
it wasn't really an automake bug.  It's a binutils bug.

The failing line was a ranlib command operating on a filename with
spaces.

I had opted to install the 90-byte shell-script version of ranlib rather
than the normal version (which is almost a duplicate of "ar").  Looks
like the official "ranlib.sh" file in binutils-2.14 is not armored
properly -- it uses $1 when "$1" is called for...

---- Michael Deutschmann <address@hidden>