bug#12178: GNU Automake 1.12.2 - FAIL: 1

[Dennis Clarke]

Thanks Stefano.  I have had to make the switch over from a Debian Linux
box on x86_64 to Solaris 10 on a production Sparc server. This means you
may see the odd bug report from me, because, what a surprise, things from
the GNU world often "just don't work" when they land on Solaris.

Dennis 

----- Original Message -----
From: Stefano Lattarini <address@hidden>
Date: Saturday, August 11, 2012 8:00 am
Subject: Re: bug#12178: GNU Automake 1.12.2 - FAIL:  1
To: Dennis Clarke <address@hidden>
Cc: address@hidden


> forcemerge 11896 12178
> close 12178
> thanks
> 
> Hi Dennis, thanks for the report.
> 
> On 08/11/2012 03:52 AM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
> > .
> > .
> > I'll dig into it and find the FAIL : 
> >
> > FAIL: t/aclocal7
> > ================
> > 
> > Running from installcheck: no
> > Using TAP: no
> > PATH = 
> > /build/other/automake-1.12.2_001/t/ax:/build/other/automake-1.12.2_001/t/wrap:/usr/local/mm/sbin:/usr/local/mm/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/schily/bin
> > +++ pwd
> > /build/other/automake-1.12.2_001/t/aclocal7.dir
> > + cat
> > + mkdir sub
> > + :
> > + cat
> > + :
> > + mkdir m4
> > + echo 'AC_DEFUN([SOME_DEFS], [])'
> > + aclocal-1.12 -Werror -I m4
> > + AUTOMAKE_after_aclocal
> > + sleep 2
> > + automake-1.12 --foreign -Werror -Wall --no-force
> > + touch foo
> > + sleep 2
> > + aclocal-1.12 -Werror -I m4
> > + AUTOMAKE_after_aclocal
> > + sleep 2
> > + automake-1.12 --foreign -Werror -Wall --no-force
> > + is_newest foo aclocal.m4 Makefile.in sub/Makefile.in
> > is_newest: these files are newer than 'foo':
> > * aclocal.m4
> > * Makefile.in
> > * sub/Makefile.in
> > + exit_status=1
> > + set +e
> > + cd /build/other/automake-1.12.2_001
> > + test no = yes
> > + case $am_explicit_skips in
> > + test 1 -eq 0
> > + keep_testdirs=yes
> > + am_keeping_testdirs
> > + case $keep_testdirs in
> > + return 0
> > + set +x
> > aclocal7: exit 1
> > 
> This is a spurious failure due to a weakness in the Automake testsuite.
> It is already known, and has already been fixed by Adam Sampson:
> 
>   <
> 
> So I'm closing this report.
> 
> Regards,
>   Stefano