Mac OS X Leopard and conftest.dSYM directories

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello there,

Jeff Squyres reported that on Mac OS X Leopard, some configure tests
create spurious warnings of the form:

  rm: conftest.dSYM: is a directory

It seems either the compiler or the linker, or both, create these
directories and do not remove them again.  I do not know the details,
for example whether compiler flags are needed to provoke this, and do
not have access to this system.  Some Libtool and some Autoconf tests
are affected.  Just searching the net for the warning reveals issues.

I remember that, in the past, when we made the removal patterns more
generous, we hit issues with third party macros that tried to inspect
generated file after/in the test, which makes me reluctant to suggest
to blindly change `rm -f conftest*' to `rm -rf conftest*' everywhere.

Further, I fail to find useful information about *.dSYM directories on
developer.apple.com, all I can see talks about files named that way.

Any chance somebody could help here?  For example, if you have a Leopard
system, it would help to see verbose output of git Autoconf's testsuite,
to be able to find out which Autoconf macros are affected:
  make check TESTSUITEFLAGS='-v -x'

(both stdout and stderr).  This is going to be quite large, so please
pack it with bzip2 or so.

Cheers, and thanks,
Ralf