Re: bug#11893: Regression in automake 1.12.1 on Mac OS X

[Stefano Lattarini]

Hi Peter.

On 07/11/2012 11:21 PM, Peter Rosin wrote:
> On 2012-07-11 14:44, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
>> On 07/09/2012 07:04 PM, Max Horn wrote:
>>
>>> I am currently looking into packaging automake 1.12.1 for
>>> Fink <http://www.finkproject.org/> on Mac OS X 10.7.
>>> Doing that, several test suite failures popped up, which
>>> I am now working through to resolve.
>>>
>> In the meantime, could you please post the 'test-suite.log' file,
>> for reference?  Thanks.
>>
>>> The first one is t/silentcxx-gcc.sh failing.
>>> Note that t/silentcxx.sh incorrectly (!) succeeds.
>>>
>>> There are two problems here:
>>>
>>> 1) The C++ compiler from Sun Studio is named "CC". This caused
>>> t/silentcxx.sh to fail, which was fixed with commit ad5d0be02d
>>> in the autonconf
>>>
>> s/autoconf/automake/ I guess.
>>
>> BTW, the problem you are reporting is similar to the one reported
>> in bug#10766 by Peter Rosin (which I'm thus CC:ing):
>> <http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=10766>
>>
>>> git repository. The same fix also needs to be applied to
>>> t/silentcxx-gcc.sh.
>>>
>> See if the attached patch solves the issue for you.  Ideally, it
>> should also fix bug#10766; Peter, could you give it a try?
> 
> Hi Stefano!
> 
> I updated for the first time in a long time but stumbled on the
> autoconf 2.69 requirement,
>
Since that requirement is only needed for bootstrapping, I could send
you a (patched) tarball to test (so that you'll only require an
autoconf >= 2.62).  Would that be more acceptable?

> it's not available as a package for
> Cygwin yet. I don't feel like rolling my own autoconf. So, no,
> I will not test this one until 2.69 is readily available. Sorry.
> 
> So, reading the patch instead, I think the method for querying case
> insensitivity seems a bit fragile
>
Agreed (albeit it does its dirty work for now).  Any suggestion on
how to make it more reliable?

> /usr/bin/gcc is a symlink on
> Cygwin and I could easily imagine someone creating a /usr/bin/GCC
> wrapper script. Not that anybody will die or anything, but still...
> 
> From the nit-picking department, I would not specifically mention
> Cygwin when talking about case insensitivity, I would refer to
> Windows as a whole instead (since you can make Cygwin case
> sensitive).
>
OK, will do.

> BTW, thanks for tackling this!
> 
> Cheers,
> Peter

Thanks,
  Stefano