Re: [GNU Autoconf 2.59] testsuite: 69 71 136 146 162 failed

[Paul Eggert]

Michael Eisenstein <address@hidden> writes:

> MACOSX Version 10.3.5
>
> Please email me back if there is any more information which can help
> in determining the cause of these failures.  Thanks

Thanks.  About the Fortran failures I have no idea; I'll let any
Fortran experts chime in about those.  But the other failures look
like this:

   --- expout   Sun Sep  5 10:56:15 2004
   +++ /Users/meisenstein/Desktop/autoconf-2.59/tests/testsuite.dir/at-stdout   
Sun Sep  5 10:56:16 2004
   @@ -4,3 +4,4 @@
    configure
    configure.ac
    testsuite.log
   +testsuite.log
   136. acprograms.at:24: 136. AC_RSH (acprograms.at:24): FAILED 
(acprograms.at:24)

and as near as I can make out, this can happen only if the command

ls -1 | sed '/^at-/d;/^state-/d;/^config\./d' | sort

outputs duplicate "testsuite.log" lines.  This would suggest a bug
either with your kernel or file system, or "ls", or "sed", or "sort".
Can you reproduce it outside Autoconf?  If so, please report it to
your operating system supplier and let us know exactly what the bug
is, so that we can try to work around it.  If not, perhaps you can
investigate why Autoconf seems to exhibit the bug.