Re: [GNU Autoconf 2.68] testsuite: 220 failed

[Eric Blake]

On 08/24/2011 07:20 AM, Dennis Clarke wrote:

Thanks for the report.

> checking whether true(1) works... (cached) yes
> ./base.at:488: ${CONFIG_SHELL-$SHELL} -c 'case `. ./syntax; echo $?` in
>              0|"") exit 77;; esac'
> stderr:
> ./syntax: line 2: syntax error: unexpected end of file
> stdout:
> ./base.at:496: ./configure $configure_options
> stderr:
> /home/dclarke/build/autoconf-2.68-001/tests/testsuite.dir/220/bad.site: 1: Syntax error: 
> "fi" unexpected
> stdout:
> configure: loading site script 
> /home/dclarke/build/autoconf-2.68-001/tests/testsuite.dir/220/bad.site
> ./base.at:496: exit code was 2, expected 1

This is a known bug in the testsuite, for expecting a particular failure 
status, rather than living with anything greater than 0.

It was fixed here:
http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/autoconf.git/commit/?id=c6b151d

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