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Re: [platform-testers] automake-1.16g snapshot


From: Dagobert Michelsen
Subject: Re: [platform-testers] automake-1.16g snapshot
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2021 16:49:33 +0200

Hi Karl,

Am 21.09.2021 um 22:32 schrieb Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>:
> 
>    Redoing the tests with 1.16g I now have 9 failed tests, the
>    testsuite.log is attached.
> 
> Thanks much for giving it a whirl right away.
> But are those failures anything new? 
> 
> FAIL: t/fn99subdir
> FAIL: t/lex-clean-cxx
> FAIL: t/lex-depend-cxx
> FAIL: t/test-extensions-empty
> FAIL: t/subpkg
> FAIL: t/subpkg2
> FAIL: t/subpkg3
> FAIL: t/subpkg-yacc
> FAIL: t/vala-mix2
> 
> They don't look like anything that was touched in these small changes
> since 1.16.4; the only real purpose for the release is to get back to
> the historical Python directory behavior.
> 
> At least the lex/yacc stuff hasn't worked with Solaris tools for quite a
> while. There are a number of open bugs relating to Solaris at
>  https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/pkgreport.cgi?package=automake#_0_4_3 
> but no one has come forward to look into them. (They will never make it
> to the top of my list to work on, sorry to say.)

I see, this is probably true. Then the new release is at least as good as
the previous one ;-)


Best regards

  — Dago

-- 
"You don't become great by trying to be great, you become great by wanting to 
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and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process." - xkcd #896




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