Re: automake (GNU automake) 1.10.1 9 of 538 tests failed

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello John,

Please don't top-post, thank you.

* Trudeau, John F wrote on Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 01:23:53AM CEST:
> From: Ralf Wildenhues:
> > * Trudeau, John F wrote on Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 07:25:34PM CEST:
> > > 9 of 538 tests failed
> > > (76 tests were not run)
> > 
> > Can you please run this in the build tree:
> >   cd tests
> >   make check VERBOSE=yes TESTS="cond35.test instspc.test \
> >     pr204.test subpkg.test yacc4.test yacc6.test yacc7.test \
> >     yacc8.test yaccvpath.test" 2>&1 | tee check-log
> > 
> > and post check-log?

> The bash version that was used in the original report was:
> 
> /home/trudeajo$ /bin/bash --version
> GNU bash, version 2.05b.0(1)-release (powerpc-ibm-aix5.1)
> Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> /home/trudeajo$  
> 
> After bootstrapping the latest bash (3.2.39).  I reran automake build
> and got only 1 failure.

Thanks. The instspc.test failure is due to ranlib not liking file names
with spaces.

Can you still please run the above verbose test run for all 9 tests with
your old bash 2.05b.0(1) too?  I would like to fix any shell portability
issues in the testsuite.  Thanks.

Cheers,
Ralf