Re: automake-1.7.4: 7 tests failed on NetBSD/sparc-1.5

[Richard Dawe]

Hello.

Adrian Bunk wrote:
> 
> > > The following tests failed for me on NetBSD/sparc-1.5:
> >...
> > > FAIL: dejagnu3.test
> > > FAIL: dejagnu4.test
> > > FAIL: dejagnu5.test
> > > FAIL: dejagnu6.test
> > > FAIL: dejagnu7.test
> >...
[snip]
> First of all sorry for not answering earlier.
> 
> Below is the verbose output of automake-1.7.6.

No worries! Thanks for getting round to it.

[snip]
> dejagnu3: running runtest --version
> WARNING: Couldn't find the global config file.
> Expect version is       5.38.0
> Tcl version is          8.3
> Framework version is    1.4.2
> === Running test ./dejagnu3.test
[snip]
> make  check-DEJAGNU
> make[1]: Entering directory 
> `/aux/adrian/build/automake-1.7.6/tests/testSubDir'
> Making a new site.exp file...
> srcdir=`CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd . && pwd`; export srcdir; \
> EXPECT=expect; export EXPECT; \
> runtest=runtest; \
> if /usr/local/bin/bash -c "$runtest --version" > /dev/null 2>&1; then \
>   l='hammer'; for tool in $l; do \
>     $runtest HAMMER=./hammer --tool $tool --srcdir $srcdir ; \
>   done; \
> else echo "WARNING: could not find \`runtest'" 1>&2; :;\
> fi
> WARNING: Couldn't find the global config file.
> WARNING: Couldn't find tool init file
> 
> Illegal Argument "HAMMER=./hammer"
> try "runtest --help" for option list
> make[1]: *** [check-DEJAGNU] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/aux/adrian/build/automake-1.7.6/tests/testSubDir'
> make: *** [check-am] Error 2
> FAIL: dejagnu3.test
[snip]

It looks like dejagnu 1.4.2 doesn't support setting variables on the
command-line like this:

    $runtest HAMMER=./hammer

Looking at the ChangeLog for dejagnu 1.4.3, it seems that some bugs were fixed
in the handling of things like HAMMER=./hammer (called "Makefile style args"
in the ChangeLog) between 1.4.2 and 1.4.3.

This is all speculation, though. I'll try to reproduce this with dejagnu 1.4.2
on my Linux box and come up with some kind of patch for the test suite to make
it require 1.4.3.

Thanks, bye, Rich =]

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