Re: testsuite.log

[Noah Misch]

On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 05:07:07PM -0500, address@hidden wrote:
> After configuring, making and trying to test autoconf 2.58 (using the same 
> version of automake (1.9.2) as another project that required autoconf 2.58 
> or greater...), I received the following testsuite.log file and a message 
> with a request to send it to this email.

Please use Autoconf 2.59 instead.  It will not affect your test suite results,
but it is definitely the better version.

> 2. tools.at:92: 2. Syntax of the Perl scripts (tools.at:92): FAILED 
> (tools.at:104)

This is fixed in CVS as of 2003-12-29.

> 3. tools.at:118: testing ...
> tools.at:126: autom4te --language=m4sugar script.4s -o script 
> tools.at:134: autom4te --language=m4sugar script.4s -o script 
> stderr:
> script.4s:1: /bin/m4: Cannot open foo: No such file or directory 
> autom4te: /bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
> tools.at:134: exit code was 0, expected 1
> 3. tools.at:118: 3. autom4te cache (tools.at:118): FAILED (tools.at:134)

Weird.  What is the output of `/bin/m4 --version'?

> 24. base.at:29: testing ...
> base.at:60: autoconf 
> --- /dev/null Thu Jul 14 20:46:02 2005
> +++ /home/tlvogl/apps/autoconf-2.58/tests/testsuite.dir/at-stderr     Thu Jul 
> 14 14:48:39 2005
> @@ -0,0 +1 @@
> +autom4te: cannot lock autom4te.cache/requests with mode 2 (perhaps you are 
> running make -j on a lame NFS client?): Invalid argument 
> 24. base.at:29: 24. AC_REQUIRE: topological sort (base.at:29): FAILED 
> (base.at:60)

This causes most of the test failures.  Why does your Perl flock(file, LOCK_EX)
return EINVAL on a file below the Autoconf build directory?

Thanks for the report.