Re: autoconf-2.65 on UnixWare 7.1.4

[Tim Rice]

On Mon, 18 Jan 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:

> [ let's drop bug-autoconf ]
> 
> Hi Tim,
> 
> * Tim Rice wrote on Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 09:46:07PM CET:
> > On Mon, 18 Jan 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > 
> > > Anyway, the failure of 211 is easy, and due to 'false' exiting 255 on
> > > your system rather than 1 (which is documented in autoconf.texi).
> > > Please confirm that the patch below fixes the issue; the test addition
> > > is to ensure the respective code path for $srcdir != '.' is covered as
> > > well.
> 
> > Not quite there yet.
> > Now  211 & 371 fail.
> > log attached.
> 
> 371 is another issue: your shell leaks temporary files and forgets to
> clean them up.  Please clean them up yourself at a convenient point.
> If you want to help debugging your shell to find out whether it is
> certain constructs that cause it to do so, it might be helpful if you
> could look at the time stamps and contents of the leftover temp files.
> Presumably most of them come from Autoconf or Libtool scripts.

Ah, I see what happened. Running "gmake check CONFIG_SHELL=/opt/bin/bash"
didn't use bash for everything. Some tests used ksh.

> 
> Anyway, 211 should be helped with this incremental patch.

Yes it does the job.
I ran "gmake check TESTSUITEFLAGS=CONFIG_SHELL=/opt/bin/bash" and
all tests pass.

Thanks

>       * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (AC_OUTPUT): Ensure to exit 1 in case
>       of config.status failure.
> 

P.S. What list do I need to be on to be notified prior to release so I
     can test?

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