Re: Overriding LN_S

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Peter Rosin wrote on Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 11:15:33PM CEST:
> Den 2010-10-15 19:51 skrev Ralf Wildenhues:
> > With that fixed, I ran the testsuite on GNU/Linux once without LN_S set,
> > once with export LN_S='cp -p', both successfully, but with LN_S=bla, the
> > only failure is from the foreign.at:Libtool test, because libtoolize
> > honors $LN_S.
> 
> Wasn't that unexpectedly few failures for the last case?

Right.

> > I think a testsuite addition that ensures that LN_S is honored for both
> > AC_PROG_LN_S and for AS_LN_S is in order; we have already regressed on
> > this once, a few years ago.  Please ping me if you want me to write one.
> 
> I don't feel at home in the autoconf testsuite

I'll look into it.  I'll make up for it by delaying your pending
Automake patch for another little while.  ;-)

Cheers,
Ralf