Test 92 fails with an indefinite hang as does test 220

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Tom,

Please keep the thread and subject when replying, thanks.

* I. Thomas Cundiff wrote on Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 07:39:27PM CET:
> 
> ./testsuite 221
> 
> and got a failed and a request to send in testsuite.log which I have 
> attached.

Thanks.  The failure (see excerpt below) is known and is benign.
You can ignore it.

> So it seems that I can really install autoconf-2.61 although I don't 
> understand why I am able to run these tests using testsuite in 
> subdirectory tests but have problems when I try to use make check from 
> the build directory.

FWIW, I don't understand that either.  You may want to try
  ./testsuite 1-

to rerun all tests and see whether that hangs.

Cheers,
Ralf

> --- /dev/null 2000-08-24 05:00:32.000000000 -0400
> +++ /Aux/Install/autoconf-2.61/tests/testsuite.dir/at-stderr  2007-02-22 
> 13:27:41.000000000 -0500
> @@ -0,0 +1 @@
> +./configure: line 1652: echo: write error: Broken pipe
> stdout:
> configure: creating cache config.cache
> checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /usr/local/bin/sed
> configure: updating cache config.cache