failed tests with automake 1.7.1 and autoconf 2.55

[Robert Baier]

Hello!

I compiled recently automake-1.7.1 using autoconf-2.55 and "make check" 
delivered seven failed tests (2 tests were not run).

The machine (under SuSE 7.0) is the following:

  uname -a:
    Linux btcipmatx13 2.2.16 #1 Thu Oct 19 21:12:48 CEST 2000
      i686 unknown

I issued the following commands after unpacking:
  ./configure --prefix=/share/lib/automake-1.7.1
              --exec-prefix=/share/lib/automake-1.7.1
              --oldincludedir=/share/lib/automake-1.7.1/old/include


./configure --prefix=/share/lib/autoconf-2.55 \
              --exec-prefix=/share/lib/autoconf-2.55 \
              --oldincludedir=/share/lib/autoconf-2.55/old/include
  make

No errors up to here, but then seven tests fail while issuing:

  make check

Below you will find the messages "make check" (all other tests passed):

  XFAIL: auxdir2.test 

  XFAIL: cond17.test 

  FAIL: libtool3.test
  FAIL: nobase.test
  FAIL: pr300-ltlib.test
  FAIL: pr307.test
  SKIP: python3.test
  XFAIL: subdir5.test
  SKIP: subobj9.test
  FAIL: suffix8.test
  FAIL: suffix10.test
  FAIL: texinfo13.test

  7 of 431 tests failed
  (2 tests were not run)
  Please report to address@hidden

By the way, there are two tests marked with XFAIL which
are not counted as failed tests ... .

Hope you will find the problem, I got no more information from "make".

  Best regards
     Robert
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Dr. Robert Baier <address@hidden>
University of Bayreuth                Universitaet Bayreuth
Mathematical Institute                Mathematisches Institut
Chair of Applied Mathematics          Lehrstuhl fuer Angewandte Mathematik
D-95440 Bayreuth, Germany             95440 Bayreuth

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