Re: [GNU Autoconf 2.59] testsuite: 2 3 6 7 9 12 13 14 31 failed [Deutsche Boerse Systems:Virus checked]

[Paul Eggert]

address@hidden writes:

> I installed the latest m4 1.4.1 totally successfull.  I tried to use
> autoconf 2.59 but the testsuite.log stays logically unchanged.

OK, thanks for following up on the problem.  I just tried it myself on
a Solaris 8 sparc host and did run into problems.  I guess I didn't
see them before because I had some other GNU software installed: this
time, I tried it with a non-GNU installation (e.g., without the sfw
stuff), except with GNU m4 1.4.1 in my path.  I used the Solaris perl
(/usr/bin/perl, which is 5.00503) and the Sun C compiler (Forte
Developer 7 C 5.4 2002/03/09).

The bugs I ran into were all Perl-related, so quite possibly this is a
Perl version issue.  Please try the following patches and see whether
this fixes your problem.  (They fixed my problems.)  You'll probably
need to start with a fresh copy of Autoconf 2.59, install these
patches, and run "configure;make;make check" as usual.

These patches are installed in the Autoconf CVS so they should appear
in the next version.

diff -p -u -r1.121 -r1.122
--- bin/autoreconf.in   12 Nov 2003 15:28:45 -0000      1.121
+++ bin/autoreconf.in   30 Dec 2003 00:19:32 -0000      1.122
@@ -490,7 +490,7 @@ sub autoreconf_current_directory ()
   if (defined $aux_dir && ! -d $aux_dir)
     {
       verb "$configure_ac: creating directory $aux_dir";
-      mkdir $aux_dir
+      mkdir $aux_dir, 0755
        or error "cannot create $aux_dir: $!";
     }
 
diff -p -u -r1.32 -r1.33
--- lib/Autom4te/General.pm     21 Aug 2003 17:50:11 -0000      1.32
+++ lib/Autom4te/General.pm     12 Aug 2004 17:24:16 -0000      1.33
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # autoconf -- create `configure' using m4 macros
-# Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
 # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -183,7 +183,8 @@ sub END
   #        this sets $? = 255
   #
   # Cases 1), 2), and 3b) are fine, but we prefer $? = 1 for 3a) and 3c).
-  $? = 1 if ($! && $! == $?) || $? == 255;
+  my $status = $?;
+  $status = 1 if ($! && $! == $?) || $? == 255;
   # (Note that we cannot safely distinguish calls to `exit (n)'
   # from calls to die when `$! = n'.  It's not big deal because
   # we only call `exit (0)' or `exit (1)'.)
@@ -215,6 +216,8 @@ sub END
       $? = 1;
       return;
     }
+
+  $? = $status;
 }