Re: autobuild logs for Autoconf

[Eric Blake]

On 09/15/2010 12:09 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Hi Eric,
>
> I sent a bunch of logs to http://autobuild.josefsson.org/autoconf/
> for git Autoconf plus the two diffs below.  The second is for
> Solaris 2.6 whose compiler generates core files for one particular
> configure test (don't remember which) which causes lots of spurious
> test failures.
>
> In my testing, I removed GNU tools from PATH as much as possible.
>
> +++ b/configure.ac
> @@ -31,6 +31,8 @@ AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([build-aux])
>   AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.11 dist-bzip2 dist-xz
>   readme-alpha no-texinfo.tex std-options])
>
> +m4_ifdef([AB_INIT], [AB_INIT])
> +

Let's go one step further, by installing m4/autobuild.m4 and blindly 
calling it (yet another file to sync from gnulib, until such time as we 
try to refactor autoconf to use gnulib-tool).  I'll work on that patch.

> +++ b/tests/statesave.m4
> @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
>   # directory, while avoiding yet another fork.
>   m4_defun([AC_STATE_SAVE],
>   [(set) 2>&1 | sort>state-env.$1
> -ls | sed '/^at-/d;/^state-/d;/^config\./d
> +ls | sed '/^at-/d;/^state-/d;/^config\./d;/^core$/d

Seems reasonable; can you work that up into a formal patch?

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