Re: autoconf-2.50: more bizarre behavior

[Akim Demaille]

| This morning, I started new builds of autoconf-2.50 on the IBM SP/2
| AIX 4.3.2.0 system, and on the Apple Darwin system.  Neither behaved
| as before.
| 
| On the IBM, I got this:
| 
|       % oslevel
|       4.3.2.0
| 
|       % machinetype
|       IBM SP2 (166 MHz);  AIX 4.3.2.0
| 
|       % time ./configure && time make all && time make check
|       ...
|       Compatibility with other tools.
| 
|       152: foreign.at:9      ok
|       =============================
|       All 152 tests were successful
|       =============================
|       Target "check" is up to date.
|       Target "check" is up to date.
|       1564.900u 2710.140s 7:37:39.68 15.5%    114+248k 0+0io 14453pf+0w
| 
| No test failed this time!  And it took nearly 8 hr to run this on a
| lightly-loaded IBM SP2 node.

Grrr.

| On Apple Darwin, the tests also completed, instead of producing a
| shell loop, but unfortunately, I forgot to use the time command, so I
| don't know how long it took: certainly several hours, since I checked
| it from time to time.
| 
|       % machinetype
|       Apple PowerMac G4 (2 533MHz CPUs; 256MB RAM);    Darwin 1.3.3
| 
|       % make SHELL='/bin/sh -vx' all check
|       ...
|       151. ./acfunctions.at:32: ok
|       + sed h;s/./=/g;p;x;p;x
|       ========================
|       testsuite.log is created
|       ========================
|       + echo
| 
|       + echo Please send `testsuite.log' to <address@hidden> together with all
|       Please send `testsuite.log' to <address@hidden> together with all
|       + echo the information you think might help.
|       the information you think might help.
|       + exit 1
| 
| I've put these files up for you to grab, if they are useful to you:
| 
|       
ftp://ftp.math.utah.edu/outgoing/testsuite.log.darwin.math.utah.edu.2001.05.31.05.53.10.gz
|       
ftp://ftp.math.utah.edu/outgoing/typescript.darwin.math.utah.edu.2001.05.31.05.53.10.gz
| 
| (16KB and 70KB respectively).

Thanks!