Re: autoconf-2.49c test [ 23 145 ] failures on SunOS 4.1.4

[Akim Demaille]

| 23. ../../tests/base.at:205: testing AC_CACHE_CHECK...
| ../../tests/base.at:212: autoconf --autoconf-dir .. -l $at_srcdir 
| ../../tests/base.at:213: ./configure -q
| ../../tests/base.at:215: top_srcdir=$top_srcdir ./configure 
| --- - Tue Jan 30 11:47:40 2001
| +++ at-stdout Tue Jan 30 11:47:39 2001
| @@ -1 +1,2 @@
| +configure: loading cache /dev/null
|  checking for nothing... found

Err?  Why do *you* see this message, and we don't?

====================================
Testing suite for GNU Autoconf 2.49d
====================================
23. ./base.at:205: testing AC_CACHE_CHECK...
./base.at:214: autoconf --autoconf-dir .. -l $at_srcdir 
./base.at:215: top_srcdir=$top_srcdir ./configure -q
stdout:
23. ./base.at:205: ok
===========================
All 1 tests were successful
===========================

Hm, the code is...


| if test -r "$cache_file"; then
|   # Some versions of bash will fail to source /dev/null (special
|   # files actually), so we avoid doing that.
|   if test -f "$cache_file"; then
|     { echo "$as_me:821: loading cache $cache_file" >&5
| echo "$as_me: loading cache $cache_file" >&6;}
|     case $cache_file in
|       [\\/]* | ?:[\\/]* ) . $cache_file;;
|       *)                      . ./$cache_file;;
|     esac
|   fi
| else
|   { echo "$as_me:829: creating cache $cache_file" >&5
| echo "$as_me: creating cache $cache_file" >&6;}
|   >$cache_file
| fi

Hm, I guess the difference is test -r /dev/null and test -f /dev/null
on your machine as opposed to my sh:

src/ace/tests % sh -c 'test -r /dev/null && test -f /dev/null'; echo $?
1

But anyway, this is a problem: with -q FD6 should be /dev/null, so we
shouldn't see this anyway.

May I ask you this:

        ./testsuite -d -v 23
        sh -x ./configure -q >log 2>&1

and send the log?  Thanks!







145. ../../tests/acfunctions.at:30: ok

Too bad, nondeterministic.  Did you do something special?  Rebuilding
while running the test suite or so?  Can you reproduce it?

        ./testsuite 145