Re: [GNU Autoconf 2.60] testsuite: 156 164 169 170 171 failed

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Lillian,

thanks for the feedback.

* Frisch, Lillian Lena  wrote on Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 01:41:29AM CEST:
> 
> This occurred on a powerpc darwin 7.0 server running OS X Server 10.3.9, gcc 
> 3.3, perl 5.8.8, m4 1.4.11. For ./configure, I added --libdir=/usr/lib 
> --libexec=/usr/libexec --prefix=/usr/bin (where autoconf was originally 
> installed) EMACS=/usr/bin/emacs.  I ran make install for the heck of it and 
> received this:

> Making install in bin
[...]

The 'make install' output looks fine to me.

The testsuite.log shows a few failures.  These all look more or less
like this example:

> #                             -*- compilation -*-
> 156. semantics.at:304: testing ...
> ./semantics.at:304: autoconf --force -W obsolete
> ./semantics.at:304: /bin/sh -n configure
> ./semantics.at:304: autoheader 
> ./semantics.at:304: top_srcdir=$abs_top_srcdir ./configure -C
> stdout:
> configure: creating cache config.cache
[...]
> configure: updating cache config.cache
> configure: creating ./config.status
> config.status: creating config.h
> ./semantics.at:304: $at_diff "state-ls.before" "state-ls.after"
> --- /dev/null Tue Aug 26 17:55:35 2008
> +++ /usr/bin/autoconf-2.60/tests/testsuite.dir/at-stdout      Tue Aug 26 
> 17:55:35 2008
> @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
> +--- state-ls.before  Tue Aug 26 17:55:28 2008
> ++++ state-ls.after   Tue Aug 26 17:55:35 2008
> +@@ -4,3 +4,4 @@
> + configure
> + configure.ac
> + testsuite.log
> ++testsuite.log
> ./semantics.at:304: exit code was 1, expected 0
[...]

The failing check compares (with diff -u) two directory listings.
What confuses me is that one of the listings apparently shows the
"testsuite.log" file twice.  Which file system was this run on?

Thanks,
Ralf