Re: Automake 1.9.4 won't pass all tests...

[Guillaume Rousse]

Ben @ Yahoo wrote:
> I am trying to install automake 1.9.4 from source on my system. The system is a
> Slackware 10.0.0 installation on a PII/233.  I upgraded m4 to 1.4.2, and also
> installed Diff Utils 2.8.1 from source.. Additionally, Bison 1.875 is
> installed, from source I believe.  Otherwise, all software is as it comes from
> the distro.
>
> I have attached a script of the build, which simply follows the following
> commands:
>
>  $ ./configure
>  $ make
>  $ make check
>
> However, it is failing 8 tests, XFAILs 3 tests, and skips 50 tests.  I'm not
> terribly concerned about the XFAIL'd and skipped tests, but I don't want to
> install the software until it passes all the tests.
>
> The following is a list of the tests failed:
>
> cond35.test
> pr204.test
> subpkg.test
> yacc4.test
> yacc6.test
> yacc7.test
> yacc8.test
> yaccvpath.test
I've also had problems with java.test on x86_64, I reported it on gnats, 
as automake/443 (no direct link apparently), as suggested on 
http://sources.redhat.com/automake/. Is it the correct process ?
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