Re: [GNU Autoconf 2.69.23-388d] testsuite: 35 failed (autom4te preselections)

[Eric Blake]

On 09/21/2012 04:24 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> ## ------------- ##
> ## Test results. ##
> ## ------------- ##
> 
> ERROR: 1 test was run,
> 1 failed unexpectedly.
> 
> ## ------------------------ ##
> ## Summary of the failures. ##
> ## ------------------------ ##
> Failed tests:
> GNU Autoconf 2.69.23-388d test suite test groups:
> 
>  NUM: FILE-NAME:LINE     TEST-GROUP-NAME
>       KEYWORDS
> 
>   35: tools.at:1162      autom4te preselections

Thanks for the report.  However, it is passing for me, so there's got to
be some difference in our environments explaining your failure.

> automake (GNU automake) 1.12.2

Hmm, on my environment, it passed with automake 1.11.1; maybe it's the
version of automake that matters?

> ./tools.at:1200: test "`find configure -newer newer`" = "" ||
>         { diff old-requests autom4te.cache/requests; exit 1; }

Eww - we should really sort these things, so that the diff isn't so hard
to read.  And use 'diff -u' instead of 'diff'.  Improvements to the
testsuite just to make diagnosing the failure easier would be welcome.

My guess is that newer automake is now tracing a different set of
macros, and one of them wasn't preselected.  But without an improved
test, it's hard to see which one :)

-- 
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