Re: make-3.81rc1 - Cygwin bugs, test errors

[gk]

I am moving this thread here from help-make list.

I have not created a Savannah bug yet since still under investigation.
I am working on re-writing default_names perl script as I go and will 
submit revision for approval when done.

At 07:06 AM 2/25/2006, I wrote:
> At 06:41 AM 2/24/2006, gk wrote:
> > Finding tests...
> >
> > features/comments ....................................... ok     (1 passed)
> > features/conditionals ................................... ok     (4 passed)
> > features/default_names ..................................
> > *** Test died (features/default_names): test_driver.pl: 453: abort at 
> > test_drive
> > r.pl line 638.


After further investigation, I have some more info.

It appears that tests/scripts/features/default_names had, for some reason, 
created a makefile in the top level of tests directory, instead of under 
'work' directory.

# FILE: tests/makefile

THIRD: ; @echo It chose Makefile

# eof

This file was generated by default_names (line 32):

# Create another makefile called "Makefile"
open(MAKEFILE,"> Makefile");
print MAKEFILE "THIRD: ; address@hidden It chose Makefile\n";

This was a temporary file that should have been deleted after the test run 
but wasn't for a couple of reasons:

1. Since it was (for some still unknown reason - possibly due to errors in 
INSTALL file instructions which instructed me to run 'make check' prior to 
'./make install') created in the wrong location (outside of work 
directory), it was not deleted by the test_driver.pl script's toplevel() 
function
2. default_names calls error() and dies prior to cleanup code:

# COMPARE RESULTS
&compare_output($answer,&get_logfile(1)) || &error("abort");
unlink $makefile;

I am cleaning up and moving the unlink prior to the error call.


- Greg Keraunen
http://www.xmake.org