Re: test failures on MirBSD

[Eric Blake]

On 09/13/2010 12:16 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > The Mir Ports project also includes automake 1.9.6, but that's the
> > extent of pre-compiled builds provided by the distro.  (Obviously,
> > they aren't aware of the security bugs in only providing such old
> > versions).
>
> > By the way, MirBSD's stock autoconf is equally broken in the same
> > manner (and the valid pre-installed choices there are 2.13 and 2.61,
> > and lack of AUTOCONF_VERSION in the environment gives 0 exit status
> > without a valid version string).
>
> Yep.  OpenBSD, too.

Thankfully, it was rather painless to install stock automake 1.11.1 and 
autoconf 2.67 onto the machine at a point in PATH earlier than the 
broken wrapper scripts, and once those were in place, I was able to 
bootstrap and test directly from autoconf.git.  (Getting a working git 
installed was the harder proposition.  Among other things, MirBSD's 
<sys/select.h> is broken if you define _POSIX_C_SOURCE as git does, 
because fd_set is defined only when you do not request POSIX compliance; 
and the git port in /usr/ports failed to build.)

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