bug#11204: automake-1.11.4 test failures, powerpc-darwin8

[David Fang]

> > > and in fact Automake has stopped trying to cater to Debian install-info since
> > > the release 1.11.2.
> > So I have an install-info from dpkg, which is used by fink, which
> > installs packages to another prefix (default: /sw):
> >
> > fang% which install-info
> > /sw/sbin/install-info
> > fang% dpkg -S `which install-info`
> > dpkg: /sw/sbin/install-info
> What happens if you use GNU info instead?  Do the testsuite failures
> persist?

Already using GNU info (previous report):

fang% ls -l `which info`
-rwxr-xr-x   1 fang  admin  534832 Nov 11  2008 /sw/bin/info*
fang% dpkg -S /sw/bin/info
texinfo: /sw/bin/info
fang% info --version
info (GNU texinfo) 4.13


> > > What happens if you re-run the failed tests after defining 'AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR'
> > > to "no" in the environment?  Like this:
> > >
> > >  $ cd tests && AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR=no make -jN recheck
> >
> > % env AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR=no make recheck
> > FAIL: install-info-dir.test
> > FAIL: distcheck-override-infodir.test
> These are weaknesses in the testsuite, which are fixed by the attached
> patch.  Thanks for having found them.

And thanks for looking into this issue!


Fang

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