Re: Failed testcases for automake-1.6 on sparc-linux

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

Hi Niels,

Thanks for you report.

>>> "Niels" == Niels Möller <address@hidden> writes:

 Niels> I wrote:

 >> I just installed automake-1.6 on my sparc station running linux-2.2.19
 >> and stable debian. I'm also running autoconf-2.52 (I'm upgrading to
 >> 2.53, but right now I'm waiting for its testsuite to complete, so it's
 >> not installed yet).
 >> 
 >> I ran make check, which took an *awful* lot of time on this machine.
 >> Four testcases failed, namely:
 >> 
 >> cond5.test, pr211.test, pr300-lib.test, pr300-prog.test.
 >> 
 >> The first seems to test for a hanging automake by waiting 15 seconds,
 >> so that *might* be just my machine that is too slow. But the other
 >> three tests that failed don't have any timing issues as far as I can
 >> see.
 >>
 Niels> Just one more note. I have now installed automake-1.6 on my work
 Niels> machine as well, an x86 pc running some redhatish flavour of
 Niels> linux-2.2.19. Two of the testcases failed here too: pr300-lib.test,
 Niels> pr300-prog.test.

These three pr*.test failures are known bugs in Automake 1.6's
test suite (not Automake itself).  They are fixed in Automake 1.6.1.

 >> Anything I can do to help you track down the bugs? I'm not familiar
 >> with automake internals, nor with perl.

You can run the testsuite verbosely on a particular test with

  make VERBOSE=x TESTS=cond5.test check

But it would help if you can upgrade to Automake 1.6.1 first.

Thanks,
-- 
Alexandre Duret-Lutz