Re: Backquotes in quotes in backquotes (Was: Success (mostly) with the testsuite)

[Daniele Arena]

Hi Akim,

Wow! I'm now quoted in the "THANKS" file! What an honour!;)

OK, about the serious stuff. I downloaded the CVS version yesterday
afternoon, and tested it on the same host. The backquotes problem is now
gone, so "configure" runs with no problem. "make check" is an almost
complete success, however I have no GNU sed (yet) so some parts are just
ignored. As soon as I get GNU sed, I'll repeat the tests.

For the moment, the only test failed is:

======
80. ./syntax.at:40      FAILED near `syntax.at:40'

[...]

testing AC_FUNC_MKTIME
     80. ./syntax.at:40...
./syntax.at:40: autoconf --autoconf-dir .. -l $at_srcdir
./syntax.at:40: autoheader --autoconf-dir .. -l $at_srcdir
./syntax.at:40: top_srcdir=$top_srcdir ./configure
--- empty       Wed Nov 29 19:34:07 2000
+++ stderr      Wed Nov 29 19:35:22 2000
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Alarm clock
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking for object suffix... o
checking for executable suffix... 
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking whether time.h and sys/time.h may both be included... yes
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for sys/time.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking for alarm... yes
checking for working mktime... no
creating ./config.status
creating config.h
     80. ./syntax.at:40: FAILED near `syntax.at:40'
======

By the way, I took the opportunity to run the tests on our Solaris 8
Ultra10; there are a bunch of tests failed there, so you might want to
take a look at the attached output file. Oh, no GNU sed there either.

Cheers, and don't work too much;)

Daniele.



On 29 Nov 2000, Akim Demaille wrote:

> 
> Daniele, I'm applying the patch you need to be able to use CVS
> Autoconf.  May I ask you if you could fetch CVS Autoconf and check
> that the test suite succeeds?
> 
> Thanks a lot!
> 
>         Akim

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