Re: [GNU Autoconf 2.54] failures: 28

[Akim Demaille]

Please, do keep the CC!

| > | ## ----------------------------- ##
| > | ## GNU Autoconf 2.54 test suite. ##
| > | ## ----------------------------- ##
| > | 28. torture.at:81: testing AC_ARG_VAR...
| > | torture.at:91:
| > | if (FOO=FOO; unset FOO) >/dev/null 2>&1; then
| > |   exit 0
| > | else
| > |   exit 77
| > | fi
| > | 
| > | torture.at:103: autoconf 
| > | torture.at:106: top_srcdir=$abs_top_srcdir ./configure --config-cache
| > | stdout:
| > | configure: loading site script /pro/3gl/GNU/Policy.sh
| > 
| > I'd like to know the contents of this file.  I suppose it sets CC,
| 
| Attached (for your amusement)

Thanks!

Policy.sh
Description: Text Data

Hm... I doubt it makes any difference.

| > right?  The point of this test is to check that if some precious vars
| > (amongst which CC) have changed between two runs, then configure
| > complains.
| > 
| > This is to help novices who don't know about bad side effects.
| > 
| > | OSTYPE: hpux, CC: , CFLAGS: , LDFLAGS: 
| > | OSTYPE: hpux, CC: cc, CFLAGS: -Ae +O2 +Onolimit  -I/pro/local/include 
-I/usr/include/X11R6, LDFLAGS: -Wl,+vnocompatwarnings  -s -L/pro/local/lib 
-L/usr/lib/X11R6
| 
| Those two lines are mine
| 
| I /do/ have ccache installed. Would that be a problem?

I doubt about it too.  To be honest, I suspect a problem with `unset'
in your shell.  But that's too early a conclusion, merely an intuition.



| > | configure: creating cache config.cache
| > | configure: creating ./config.status
| > | config.status: creating file
| > | torture.at:106: cat file
| > | torture.at:106: ./config.status --recheck
| > | stdout:
| > | running /bin/sh ./configure  --config-cache  --no-create --no-recursion
| > | configure: loading site script /pro/3gl/GNU/Policy.sh
| > | OSTYPE: hpux, CC: , CFLAGS: , LDFLAGS: 
| > | OSTYPE: hpux, CC: cc, CFLAGS: -Ae +O2 +Onolimit  -I/pro/local/include 
-I/usr/include/X11R6, LDFLAGS: -Wl,+vnocompatwarnings  -s -L/pro/local/lib 
-L/usr/lib/X11R6
| > | configure: loading cache config.cache
| > | configure: creating ./config.status
| > | torture.at:106: ./config.status
| > | stdout:
| > | config.status: creating file
| > | torture.at:106: cat file
| > | torture.at:106: top_srcdir=$abs_top_srcdir ./configure --config-cache
| > | stderr:
| > | stdout:
| > | configure: loading site script /pro/3gl/GNU/Policy.sh
| > | OSTYPE: hpux, CC: , CFLAGS: , LDFLAGS: 
| > | OSTYPE: hpux, CC: cc, CFLAGS: -Ae +O2 +Onolimit  -I/pro/local/include 
-I/usr/include/X11R6, LDFLAGS: -Wl,+vnocompatwarnings  -s -L/pro/local/lib 
-L/usr/lib/X11R6
| > | configure: loading cache config.cache
| > | configure: creating ./config.status
| > | config.status: creating file
| > | torture.at:106: exit code was 0, expected 1
| > 
| > I don't get it.  What does config.cache contains at this point...
| 
| Beats me :)

We'll have to dig the question :)

| > Let's try with another test suite :(  Could you try this tarball?
| > Thanks!
| 
| Running. (in a few moments ...)
| 
| > http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~akim/download/autoconf-2.54a.tar.gz
| 
| Doesn't start OK :/
| 
| HP-UX 11.00, HPc B.11.11.06, make-3.80, m4-1.4, perl-5.8.0+

My bad, sorry about this.  I was in the middle of several patches.
Please, try again.