Re: Success (mostly) with the testsuite

[Pavel Roskin]

Hello, Daniele!

> Since there was no tarball;) I thought I would checkout the CVS just to
> have some fun. I started to test here and there, and got some positive
> tests (make checks) with a SPARC(-clone) running Solaris 7. Just a tiny
> weird thing, it ignored every test in update.m4:
> 
> 125. ./update.m4:10     ignored near `update.m4:10'
> 126. ./update.m4:11     ignored near `update.m4:11'
> [...]
> 157. ./update.m4:42     ignored near `update.m4:42'
> 
> I hope it's normal, you'll know better.

It's normal (sort of) - autoupdate only works with GNU sed. I hope to fix
it some day. Currently tests for autoupdate are ignored on machines
without GNU sed.

> Another thing, I also wanted to test the package on a BSDI3.1 box, but it
> doesn't even configure:
> 
> % ./configure 
> checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
> checking whether build environment is sane... yes
> checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
> checking for working aclocal... found
> checking for working autoconf... found
> checking for working automake... found
> checking for working autoheader... found
> checking for working makeinfo... found
> checking for gm4... no
> checking for gnum4... no
> checking for m4... /usr/local/bin/m4
> checking whether m4 supports frozen files... yes
> checking for mawk... no
> checking for gawk... gawk
> checking for working help2man... missing
> checking for perl... /usr/local/bin/perl
> checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
> creating ./config.status
> ./config.status: 7: Syntax error: end of file unexpected (expecting "}")

I'll be very interested to see your config.status 

Regards,
Pavel Roskin