Re: Difficulties running the test suite.

[Joel E. Denny]

On Mon, 21 Apr 2008, Juan Manuel Guerrero wrote:

> I have checked out todays CVS head and tried to make a distribution.  This has
> failed.  When I tried to run the test suite by issuing the command "make 
> check"
> I got the following output:
> 
> Making check in tests
> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jmg/bison/tests'
> make  bison
> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/jmg/bison/tests'
> make[2]: `bison' is up to date.
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/jmg/bison/tests'
> make  check-local
> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/jmg/bison/tests'
> /bin/sh /home/jmg/bison/build-aux/missing --run autom4te --language=autotest 
> -I . testsuite.at -o testsuite.tmp
> /usr/local/bin/m4:output.at:189: ERROR: end of file in string
> autom4te: /usr/local/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
> make[2]: *** [testsuite] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/jmg/bison/tests'
> make[1]: *** [check-am] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jmg/bison/tests'
> make: *** [check-recursive] Fehler 1

I'm not seeing this.

> I have installed autoconf 2.62, automake 1.10.1, coreutils 6.10.
> If more information is needed plaese let me know.

I have Autoconf 2.61, Automake 1.10, Coreutils 5.97, and M4 1.4.10.  If 
your M4 is up to date, then I'll try upgrading the other packages 
(Autoconf is likely where the trouble is) to see if that breaks make check 
for me.  What M4 do you have?