Re: bug with automake 1.6 and autoconf 2.53

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 07:38:31AM -0700, jeff deifik wrote:
> At 09:53 AM 6/7/2002 +0200, you wrote:
> >
> >What does
> >  /usr/ets/bin/m4 --version
> >prints?
> 
> There is no m4 in that directory.

That explains it.  There was one the first time Autoconf was installed.

> Why is automake looking there, the one at /home/jdeifik/bin/m4
> is the first thing in my path.

Autoconf try to use the one it found when it was installed.

> I am reinstalling autoconf right now.
> 
> I was able to run configure on automake without incident.
> I am compiling & running check now.
> Here are the results, with the passing tests omitted:
> 
> FAIL: cond4.test
> FAIL: cond16.test
> FAIL: cond19.test

You can run the testsuite verbosely as follow:

  env TESTS='cond4.test cond16.test cond19.test' VERBOSE=x make -e check
  
The last time I have seen these failures [*], if was because the testsuite
was running on an NFS filesystem and the NFS server did not have its 
date synchronized with the NFS clients.  I wager this is your case too.

[*] http://sources.redhat.com/ml/bug-automake/2002/msg00618.html
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Alexandre Duret-Lutz