Re: [Nicolas Joly <address@hidden>] Re: CVS automake testsuite failures under Tru64 unix

[Nicolas Joly]

On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 09:48:24AM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote:
> 
> Wow!  Indeed, it looks like for some reason, AC_PACKAGE_TARNAME was
> defined to AC_PACKAGE_TARNAME, so it recurses slightly too much.
> 
> I'm a bit lost in this thread.  What _exact_ version of Autoconf is
> this?

This problem occurs both with autoconf 2.53 release and current CVS
version, under Tru64 unix v5.1a and NetBSD v1.5.1.

> Also, the traces contain something extremely suspicous:
> 
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> ãR..ãR
> €
> ×H Autom4te×H°
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>  autoconf.m4 ¸
> 
> þ acgeneral.m4þ
> ‚M 
> 
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> E 
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> éO 
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> €
> îQ
> acconfig.hîQ
> €,acfunctions,
> µ
> ’  acheaders’
> ô
> X 
acidentifiersX!‚
> ×
> acprograms×r
> A

> acmakevarsAß
> Z
> m4sugar.m4Zj_m4sh.m4_X*     aclang.m4*` acversion.m4
> À
> ƒ acfunctions.m4ƒ
> Õ
> ^ acheaders.m4^#actypes.m4€\kKINSTALLkK
> Ç
> ŽaclibrariesŽ(‚™Km4sugar™K&‚JautoconfJ
> ³
> 
> Íautotestͧ
> €autoscan$€ 
#inst.451019#
> 
> No doubt that the problem is here.  What the heck is this crap?

I can't figure what's going wrong. So i reported the problem expecting
that someone will understand this ...

-- 
Nicolas Joly

Biological Software and Databanks.
Pasteur Institute, Paris.