Re: FW: [GNU Autoconf 2.65] testsuite: 35 239 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 failed

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Václav,

thanks for the bug report.

* address@hidden wrote on Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 02:33:38PM CET:
> I am reporting the results of make check run for autoconf-2.65 on my FreeBSD
> 7.2 box. testsuite.dir tar ball is attached, if it does not make it through,
> it is also available as on
> <http://shell.sh.cvut.cz/~wilx/testsuite.dir-2.65-20100221.tar.bz2>.

I can reproduce these two failures on FreeBSD 6.4 (i386):

> 35. tools.at:1174: testing ...
> ../../tests/tools.at:1191: : > sub/some-file && exit 77
> stderr:
> /home/users/wilx/tmp/autoconf-2.65/objdir/tests/testsuite.dir/at-groups/35/test-source:
>  cannot create sub/some-file: Permission denied
> stdout:
> ../../tests/tools.at:1191: exit code was 2, expected 1
> 35. tools.at:1174: 35. autom4te cache creation (tools.at:1174): FAILED 
> (tools.at:1191)

> 239. c.at:57: testing ...
> ../../tests/c.at:65: autoconf --force 
> ../../tests/c.at:66: ./configure $configure_options 
> stderr:
> configure: error: in 
> `/home/users/wilx/tmp/autoconf-2.65/objdir/tests/testsuite.dir/239':
> configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
> See `config.log' for more details.
> stdout:
> checking for gcc... no-such-compiler
> checking whether the C compiler works... no
> ../../tests/c.at:66: exit code was 1, expected 77

The second is us failing to adhere to '(autoconf.info)Shell Functions':
     Likewise, the state of `$?' is not reliable when entering a shell
  function.

in AS_ERROR.  The first seems to be a genuine shell error difference
(from glancing at SUSv3 I can only gather that a failed redirection
should result in an exit status > 0, but no further specification).

I'm assuming the rest of the failures, which happen because no Fortran
compiler is installed, are due to the same issue as 239.

I'm working on a fix.

Sorry BTW for not seeing this sooner, I somehow managed to not exclude
bash from the list of candidate shells on my FreeBSD test system.

Thanks,
Ralf