autoconf 2.52 testsuite fails.

[Jack Cummings]

I'm stumped. Any ideas?

I have mktemp installed ( from http://www.courtesan.com/mktemp/ ) 

--Jack 

% cat ./testsuite.log
====================================
Test suite log for GNU Autoconf 2.52
====================================

/pkg/autoconf/autoconf__v2.52.dist/autoconf-2.52/ChangeLog :
| 2001-07-18  Akim Demaille  <address@hidden>
|
|       Version 2.52.
|
| 2001-07-18  Akim Demaille  <address@hidden>
|
|       The C-Fortran 77 hooks are available only once AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN
|       was run, while they are needed also when it is expanded.
|       Reported by Nicolas Joly.
|

Failed tests:
   5: tools.at:201    autoconf: forbidden tokens, basic

## ---------- ##
## Platform.  ##
## ---------- ##

hostname = isis
uname -m = 9000/785
uname -r = B.11.00
uname -s = HP-UX
uname -v = A

/usr/bin/uname -p = unknown
/bin/uname -X     = unknown

/bin/arch              = unknown
/usr/bin/arch -k       = unknown
/usr/convex/getsysinfo = unknown
hostinfo               = unknown
/bin/machine           = unknown
/usr/bin/oslevel       = unknown
/bin/universe          = unknown

PATH = 
/pkg/autoconf/autoconf__v2.52.dist/autoconf-2.52/hppa2.0w-hp-hpux11.00/tests:/pkg/autoconf/autoconf__v2.52.dist/autoconf-2.52/hppa2.0w-hp-hpux11.00:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/dt/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/local/bin

================================
Test suite for GNU Autoconf 2.52
================================
5. ../../tests/tools.at:201: testing autoconf: forbidden tokens, basic...
../../tests/tools.at:215: autoconf --autoconf-dir .. -l $at_srcdir
stderr:
sh: cat:  not found.
configure.ac:1: error: m4_file_append: cannot write: /tmp/acO26238/forbidden.rx
configure.ac:1: the top level
--- /dev/null   Wed Aug  8 16:05:23 2001
+++ at-stdout   Wed Aug  8 16:05:23 2001
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+/tmp/acO26238
5. ../../tests/tools.at:201: FAILED near `tools.at:215'


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