Re: autoconf 2.50 "make check" failures

[Pavel Roskin]

Hi, Akim!

> Well, at first sight it seems that you are experiencing problems only
> due to the test suite itself.  My first feeling is that you might have
> been using a different shell to run the test suite and to set up
> Autoconf.  Unfortunately, you should not: the test suite, for
> instance, asks configure how it asked sh's echo not to append an end
> of line.  So if the test suite's shell is different from that of
> ./configure, you get what you saw.

This is my understanding too. This probably can be fixed in atconfig.
It's not that hard.

Look at the first test, tools.at:108. Search for
configure.ac:7:TRACE2:active::ACTIVE in testsuite. It's followed by $at_c.

By the way, the testsuite should either fail if both -n and \c don't work
or eliminate dependency on at_c and at_n in the actual tests. Funny
output is fine, but failing AT_CHECK is not.

> Maybe we should have the test suite dynamically check for this, I have
> no idea.  Pavel?

Sorry, I don't have access to commercial OS'es except Windows. BTW, make
sure to Cc: me if you have a question for me. I usually onle read messages
with very appealing subjects, like this one :-)

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin