Re: [GNU Autoconf 2.59] testsuite: 40 41 failed

[Noah Misch]

On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 02:41:19PM +0200, Markus Elfring wrote:
> torture.at:687: autoreconf -Wall -v
> stderr:
> autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
> autoreconf: configure.in: not using Gettext
> autoreconf: running: aclocal  --output=aclocal.m4t
> autoreconf: configure.in: tracing
> autoreconf: configure.in: subdirectory inner to autoreconf
> autoreconf: Entering directory `inner'
> autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
> autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing
> autoreconf: configure.ac: subdirectory innermost to autoreconf
> autoreconf: Entering directory `innermost'
> autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Libtool
> autoreconf: running: /e/Programme/GNU/autoconf-2.59/tests/.././tests/autoconf 
> --prepend-include=/e/Programme/GNU/autoconf-2.59/tests/.././lib 
> --prepend-include=/e/Programme/GNU/autoconf-2.59/tests/../lib --warnings=all
> e:\Programme\GNU\autoconf-2.59\tests\autoconf: 
> /e/Programme/GNU/autoconf-2.59/tests/.././bin/e:\Programme\GNU\autoconf-2.59\tests\autoconf:
>  No such file or directory
> e:\Programme\GNU\autoconf-2.59\tests\autoconf: exec: 
> /e/Programme/GNU/autoconf-2.59/tests/.././bin/e:\Programme\GNU\autoconf-2.59\tests\autoconf:
>  cannot execute: No such file or directory
> autoreconf: /e/Programme/GNU/autoconf-2.59/tests/.././tests/autoconf failed 
> with exit status: 126
> stdout:
> torture.at:687: exit code was 126, expected 0
> 41. torture.at:654: 41. Deep Package (torture.at:654): FAILED (torture.at:687)

Both test cases fail like this.  Apparently, when your Perl executes a command
without a shell, the child's argv[0] has `\'-separators and a drive letter.
Some Autoconf wrapper scripts used $0, expecting `/'-separators.

The same wrapper scripts no longer use $0 in autoconf-2.59c, so it should not
fail in this way.  To echo Ralf, your testing autoconf-2.59c would be valuable,
in case new issues have arisen that would affect your system.