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Re: Automake-1.8.3: Test failure - instspc.test
From: |
Michael Deutschmann |
Subject: |
Re: Automake-1.8.3: Test failure - instspc.test |
Date: |
Tue, 13 Apr 2004 02:29:55 -0700 (PDT) |
On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, you wrote:
> >>> "Michael" == Michael Deutschmann <address@hidden> writes:
>
> Michael> I noticed a failure on "make check" when compiling the
> Michael> latest automake version, 1.8.3. It was on the test
> Michael> "instspc.test", which appears to test the new feature
> Michael> of support for space characters in installation paths.
>
> Thanks for the report. Could you send the output of
>
> cd tests
> ./instspc.test
I did that -- however looking at the output I could tell immediately that
it wasn't really an automake bug. It's a binutils bug.
The failing line was a ranlib command operating on a filename with
spaces.
I had opted to install the 90-byte shell-script version of ranlib rather
than the normal version (which is almost a duplicate of "ar"). Looks
like the official "ranlib.sh" file in binutils-2.14 is not armored
properly -- it uses $1 when "$1" is called for...
---- Michael Deutschmann <address@hidden>