Building CVS HEAD libtool outside of source directory

[Bob Friesenhahn]

I am seeing a problem here building the CVS version of libtool outside 
of its source directory if the build OS is not the same as the 
boostrap OS.  I bootstrap from a clean CVS checkout under Solaris 10 
and then experience a huge number of test failures under FreeBSD and 
OS-X when using a VPATH build.  NTP-synchronized NFS is used to share 
the libtool source directory.  The Solaris 10 host used for bootstrap 
does not experience any test failures using a similar VPATH build. 
This leads me to suspect that something has changed in the bootstrap 
process which is causing a dependency on the boostrap host.  Building 
from outside of the source tree used to work.

Earlier today, most tests were passing under FreeBSD and OS-X.  It was 
determined that if I updated m4 to 1.4.10 the problem with the few 
test failures would go away.  At the same time, I re-installed both 
Autoconf and Automake after the new m4 was installed so that all hosts 
are using the latest released version.

Does anyone else encounter this problem?

A gzipped testsuite.log from FreeBSD is attached.

FreeBSD:
## ------------- ##
## Test results. ##
## ------------- ##

ERROR: 53 tests were run,
22 failed (3 expected failures).
2 tests were skipped.
## -------------------------- ##
## testsuite.log was created. ##
## -------------------------- ##

Please send `tests/testsuite.log' and all information you think might 
help:

   To: <address@hidden>
   Subject: [libtool 2.1a] testsuite: 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 38 39 40 42 
43 44 45 46 47 51 52 55 failed

OS-X:
## ------------- ##
## Test results. ##
## ------------- ##

ERROR: 51 tests were run,
18 failed (3 expected failures).
4 tests were skipped.
## -------------------------- ##
## testsuite.log was created. ##
## -------------------------- ##

Please send `tests/testsuite.log' and all information you think might 
help:

   To: <address@hidden>
   Subject: [libtool 2.1a] testsuite: 27 28 29 30 38 39 40 42 43 44 45 
46 47 51 52 failed


Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
address@hidden, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
GraphicsMagick Maintainer,    http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/

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