bug report for automake-1.9.2

[Larry W. Virden]

I'm using gcc (GCC) 3.3.1 and perl, v5.8.4 on a sparc solaris 8 blade 1500.

config.status reports this as the configuration options:
--program-prefix=g --target=sparc-sun-solaris2.8 
--prefix=/projects/gnu/sparc-sun-solaris2.8 
--exec-prefix=/projects/gnu/sparc-sun-solaris2.8 --with-gnu-gettext 
--enable-nls --x-includes=/usr/openwin/include --x-libraries=/usr/openwin/lib 
--with-x-toolkit=motif --with-x target_alias=sparc-sun-solaris2.8

After the configure and the make run, a make check results in the following:

Making check in tests
gmake[2]: Entering directory `/volws/lwv28/ldatae/gnu/automake-1.9.2/tests'
FAIL: aclibobj.test
FAIL: aclocal.test
PASS: aclocal3.test
FAIL: aclocal4.test
FAIL: aclocal5.test
FAIL: aclocal6.test
FAIL: aclocal7.test
FAIL: aclocal8.test
FAIL: aclocal9.test
FAIL: acloca10.test
FAIL: acloca11.test
FAIL: acloca12.test
FAIL: acloca13.test
FAIL: acloca14.test
FAIL: acloca15.test
FAIL: acloca16.test
FAIL: acloca17.test
FAIL: acoutnoq.test
FAIL: acoutpt.test
FAIL: acoutpt2.test
FAIL: acoutqnl.test
FAIL: acoutbs.test
FAIL: acsilent.test
FAIL: acsubst.test
FAIL: acsubst2.test
FAIL: all.test
FAIL: alloca.test
FAIL: alloca2.test
FAIL: alpha.test
FAIL: alpha2.test
FAIL: amassign.test
PASS: ammissing.test
FAIL: ansi.test
FAIL: ansi2.test
FAIL: ansi3.test
FAIL: ansi3b.test
FAIL: ansi4.test
FAIL: ansi5.test
FAIL: ansi6.test
FAIL: ansi7.test
FAIL: ansi8.test
FAIL: ansi9.test
FAIL: ansi10.test
FAIL: ar.test
FAIL: ar2.test
FAIL: asm.test
FAIL: autohdr.test
FAIL: autohdr2.test
FAIL: autohdr3.test
FAIL: autohdr4.test
FAIL: auxdir.test
XFAIL: auxdir2.test
FAIL: auxdir3.test
FAIL: auxdir4.test
FAIL: backsl.test
FAIL: backsl2.test
FAIL: backsl3.test
FAIL: backsl4.test
FAIL: badline.test
FAIL: badprog.test
FAIL: block.test
FAIL: bsource.test
FAIL: canon.test
FAIL: canon2.test
FAIL: canon3.test
FAIL: canon4.test
FAIL: canon5.test
FAIL: ccnoco.test
FAIL: check.test
FAIL: check2.test
FAIL: check3.test
FAIL: checkall.test
FAIL: clean.test
FAIL: clean2.test
FAIL: colneq.test
FAIL: colneq2.test
FAIL: colon.test
FAIL: colon2.test
FAIL: colon3.test
FAIL: colon4.test
FAIL: colon5.test
FAIL: colon6.test
FAIL: colon7.test
FAIL: comment.test
FAIL: comment2.test
FAIL: comment3.test
FAIL: comment4.test
FAIL: comment5.test
FAIL: comment6.test
FAIL: comment7.test
PASS: compile.test
FAIL: compile_f90_c_cxx.test
FAIL: compile_f_c_cxx.test
FAIL: cond.test
FAIL: cond2.test
FAIL: cond3.test
FAIL: cond4.test
FAIL: cond5.test
FAIL: cond6.test
FAIL: cond7.test
FAIL: cond8.test
FAIL: cond9.test
FAIL: cond10.test
FAIL: cond11.test
FAIL: cond13.test
FAIL: cond14.test
FAIL: cond15.test
FAIL: cond16.test
XFAIL: cond17.test
FAIL: cond18.test
FAIL: cond19.test
FAIL: cond20.test
FAIL: cond21.test
FAIL: cond22.test
FAIL: cond23.test
FAIL: cond24.test
FAIL: cond25.test
FAIL: cond26.test
FAIL: cond27.test
FAIL: cond28.test
FAIL: cond29.test
FAIL: cond30.test
FAIL: cond31.test
FAIL: cond32.test
FAIL: cond33.test
FAIL: cond34.test
FAIL: cond35.test
FAIL: cond36.test
FAIL: cond37.test
FAIL: condd.test
FAIL: condhook.test
FAIL: condinc.test
FAIL: condinc2.test
FAIL: condlib.test
FAIL: condman.test
FAIL: condman2.test
FAIL: conf2.test
FAIL: confdeps.test
FAIL: conff.test
FAIL: conff2.test
FAIL: confh.test
FAIL: confh4.test
FAIL: confh5.test
FAIL: config.test
FAIL: confincl.test
FAIL: conflnk.test
FAIL: conflnk2.test
SKIP: conflnk3.test
FAIL: confsub.test
FAIL: confvar.test
FAIL: confvar2.test
FAIL: copy.test
FAIL: ctarget1.test
FAIL: cxx.test
FAIL: cxx2.test
FAIL: cxxansi.test
FAIL: cxxcpp.test
FAIL: cxxlibobj.test
FAIL: cxxlink.test
FAIL: cxxnoc.test
FAIL: cxxo.test
FAIL: cygwin32.test
FAIL: dash.test
FAIL: defun.test
FAIL: defun2.test
FAIL: dejagnu.test
FAIL: dejagnu2.test
SKIP: dejagnu3.test
SKIP: dejagnu4.test
SKIP: dejagnu5.test
SKIP: dejagnu6.test
SKIP: dejagnu7.test
FAIL: depacl2.test
FAIL: depcomp.test
FAIL: depcomp2.test
FAIL: depcomp3.test
FAIL: depcomp4.test
SKIP: depcomp5.test
FAIL: depdist.test
FAIL: depend.test
FAIL: depend2.test
FAIL: depend3.test
FAIL: depend4.test
FAIL: destdir.test
FAIL: dirforbid.test
FAIL: dirlist.test
FAIL: discover.test
FAIL: distcom2.test
FAIL: distcom3.test
FAIL: distcom4.test
FAIL: distcom5.test
FAIL: distcom6.test
PASS: distcom7.test
FAIL: distdir.test
FAIL: distname.test
FAIL: dollar.test
FAIL: double.test
FAIL: dup2.test
FAIL: else.test
FAIL: empty.test
FAIL: empty2.test
FAIL: empty3.test
FAIL: empty4.test
FAIL: exdir.test
FAIL: exdir2.test
FAIL: exeext.test
FAIL: exeext2.test
FAIL: exeext3.test
FAIL: exeext4.test
FAIL: exsource.test
FAIL: ext.test
FAIL: ext2.test
FAIL: extra.test
FAIL: extra3.test
FAIL: extra4.test
FAIL: extra5.test
FAIL: extra6.test
FAIL: extra7.test
FAIL: f90only.test
FAIL: flibs.test
FAIL: fn99.test
FAIL: fnoc.test
FAIL: fo.test
FAIL: fonly.test
FAIL: fortdep.test
FAIL: fpinst2.test
FAIL: fpinstall.test
FAIL: gcj.test
FAIL: gcj2.test
FAIL: gcj3.test
FAIL: gcj4.test
FAIL: gcj5.test
PASS: getopt.test
SKIP: gettext.test
SKIP: gettext2.test
FAIL: gnumake.test
FAIL: gnuwarn.test
FAIL: gnuwarn2.test
FAIL: gnits.test
FAIL: gnits2.test
FAIL: gnits3.test
FAIL: header.test
PASS: help.test
FAIL: hosts.test
FAIL: implicit.test
FAIL: include.test
FAIL: include2.test
FAIL: info.test
FAIL: insh2.test
FAIL: install2.test
FAIL: installdir.test
FAIL: instsh.test
PASS: instsh2.test
FAIL: instdat.test
FAIL: instdat2.test
FAIL: instexec.test
FAIL: insthook.test
FAIL: instman.test
FAIL: instman2.test
FAIL: instspc.test
FAIL: interp.test
FAIL: interp2.test
FAIL: java.test
FAIL: java2.test
FAIL: javaprim.test
FAIL: javasubst.test
FAIL: ldadd.test
FAIL: ldflags.test
FAIL: lex.test
FAIL: lex2.test
FAIL: lex3.test
FAIL: lex4.test
FAIL: lex5.test
FAIL: libobj2.test
FAIL: libobj3.test
FAIL: libobj4.test
FAIL: libobj5.test
FAIL: libobj7.test
FAIL: libobj8.test
FAIL: libobj10.test
FAIL: libobj11.test
FAIL: libobj12.test
FAIL: libobj13.test
FAIL: libobj14.test
FAIL: library.test
FAIL: library2.test
FAIL: library3.test
FAIL: libtool.test
FAIL: libtool2.test
FAIL: libtool3.test
FAIL: libtool4.test
FAIL: libtool5.test
FAIL: libtool6.test
FAIL: libtool7.test
FAIL: libtool8.test
FAIL: license.test
FAIL: link_c_cxx.test
FAIL: link_dist.test
FAIL: link_f90_only.test
FAIL: link_fc.test
FAIL: link_fccxx.test
FAIL: link_fcxx.test
FAIL: link_f_only.test
FAIL: lisp2.test
FAIL: lisp3.test
FAIL: lisp4.test
FAIL: lisp5.test
FAIL: lisp6.test
FAIL: listval.test
FAIL: location.test
FAIL: longline.test
FAIL: ltcond.test
FAIL: ltcond2.test
FAIL: ltconv.test
FAIL: ltdeps.test
FAIL: ltlibobjs.test
FAIL: ltlibsrc.test
FAIL: maintclean.test
FAIL: make.test
FAIL: makej.test
FAIL: makevars.test
FAIL: man.test
FAIL: man2.test
FAIL: mclean.test
FAIL: mdate.test
FAIL: mdate2.test
FAIL: mdate3.test
FAIL: mdate4.test
FAIL: missing.test
FAIL: missing2.test
PASS: missing3.test
FAIL: mkinst2.test
FAIL: mkinstall.test
FAIL: multlib.test
FAIL: nobase.test
FAIL: nodef.test
FAIL: nodef2.test
FAIL: nodep.test
FAIL: nodepcomp.test
FAIL: nodist.test
FAIL: nodist2.test
FAIL: nodist3.test
SKIP: nogzip.test
FAIL: nogzip2.test
FAIL: noinst.test
FAIL: noinstdir.test
FAIL: nolink.test
FAIL: nostdinc.test
FAIL: number.test
FAIL: obsolete.test
FAIL: order.test
FAIL: outdir.test
FAIL: output.test
FAIL: output2.test
FAIL: output3.test
FAIL: output4.test
FAIL: output5.test
FAIL: output6.test
FAIL: output7.test
FAIL: output8.test
FAIL: output9.test
FAIL: output10.test
FAIL: overrid.test
FAIL: parse.test
FAIL: percent.test
FAIL: percent2.test
FAIL: phony.test
FAIL: pluseq.test
FAIL: pluseq2.test
FAIL: pluseq3.test
FAIL: pluseq4.test
FAIL: pluseq5.test
FAIL: pluseq6.test
FAIL: pluseq7.test
FAIL: pluseq8.test
FAIL: pluseq9.test
FAIL: pluseq10.test
FAIL: postproc.test
FAIL: ppf77.test
FAIL: pr2.test
FAIL: pr9.test
FAIL: pr72.test
FAIL: pr87.test
FAIL: pr204.test
FAIL: pr211.test
FAIL: pr220.test
FAIL: pr224.test
FAIL: pr229.test
FAIL: pr243.test
FAIL: pr266.test
FAIL: pr279.test
FAIL: pr279-2.test
FAIL: pr287.test
FAIL: pr300-lib.test
FAIL: pr300-ltlib.test
FAIL: pr300-prog.test
FAIL: pr307.test
FAIL: prefix.test
FAIL: primary.test
FAIL: primary2.test
FAIL: proginst.test
FAIL: python.test
FAIL: python2.test
FAIL: python3.test
FAIL: python4.test
FAIL: python5.test
FAIL: python6.test
FAIL: python7.test
FAIL: python8.test
FAIL: python9.test
FAIL: python10.test
FAIL: recurs.test
FAIL: recurs2.test
FAIL: remake.test
FAIL: remake2.test
FAIL: remake3.test
FAIL: remake4.test
FAIL: remake5.test
FAIL: regex.test
FAIL: req.test
FAIL: reqd.test
FAIL: reqd2.test
FAIL: rulepat.test
FAIL: scripts.test
FAIL: seenc.test
FAIL: sinclude.test
FAIL: srcsub.test
FAIL: srcsub2.test
FAIL: space.test
FAIL: specflg.test
FAIL: specflg2.test
FAIL: specflg3.test
FAIL: specflg6.test
FAIL: specflg7.test
FAIL: specflg8.test
FAIL: specflg9.test
FAIL: spell.test
FAIL: spell2.test
FAIL: spell3.test
FAIL: spelling.test
FAIL: spy.test
FAIL: stamph2.test
FAIL: stdlib.test
FAIL: stdlib2.test
FAIL: strip.test
FAIL: subdir.test
FAIL: subdir2.test
FAIL: subdir3.test
FAIL: subdir4.test
FAIL: subdir5.test
FAIL: subdir6.test
FAIL: subdir7.test
FAIL: subdir8.test
FAIL: subdir9.test
FAIL: subdirbuiltsources.test
SKIP: subcond.test
FAIL: subcond2.test
FAIL: subcond3.test
FAIL: subobj.test
FAIL: subobj2.test
FAIL: subobj3.test
FAIL: subobj4.test
FAIL: subobj5.test
FAIL: subobj6.test
FAIL: subobj7.test
FAIL: subobj8.test
FAIL: subobj9.test
FAIL: subobjname.test
FAIL: subpkg.test
FAIL: subpkg2.test
FAIL: subst.test
FAIL: subst2.test
FAIL: substref.test
FAIL: substre2.test
FAIL: substtarg.test
FAIL: suffix.test
FAIL: suffix2.test
FAIL: suffix3.test
FAIL: suffix4.test
FAIL: suffix5.test
FAIL: suffix6.test
FAIL: suffix7.test
FAIL: suffix8.test
FAIL: suffix9.test
FAIL: suffix10.test
FAIL: suffix11.test
FAIL: symlink.test
FAIL: symlink2.test
FAIL: symlink3.test
FAIL: syntax.test
FAIL: tags.test
FAIL: tagsub.test
FAIL: tar.test
FAIL: tar2.test
FAIL: tar3.test
FAIL: target-cflags.test
FAIL: targetclash.test
FAIL: txinfo.test
FAIL: txinfo2.test
SKIP: txinfo3.test
FAIL: txinfo4.test
XFAIL: txinfo5.test
FAIL: txinfo6.test
FAIL: txinfo7.test
FAIL: txinfo8.test
FAIL: txinfo9.test
FAIL: txinfo10.test
SKIP: txinfo13.test
SKIP: txinfo16.test
FAIL: txinfo17.test
SKIP: txinfo18.test
SKIP: txinfo19.test
FAIL: txinfo20.test
SKIP: txinfo21.test
SKIP: txinfo22.test
SKIP: txinfo23.test
SKIP: txinfo24.test
SKIP: txinfo25.test
FAIL: txinfo26.test
FAIL: txinfo27.test
SKIP: txinfo28.test
FAIL: txinfo29.test
FAIL: transform.test
FAIL: unused.test
FAIL: vars.test
FAIL: vars3.test
FAIL: vartar.test
FAIL: version.test
FAIL: version2.test
FAIL: version3.test
FAIL: version4.test
FAIL: version6.test
SKIP: version7.test
FAIL: vpath.test
FAIL: vtexi.test
FAIL: vtexi2.test
FAIL: warnopts.test
FAIL: werror.test
FAIL: werror2.test
FAIL: whoami.test
FAIL: xsource.test
FAIL: yacc.test
FAIL: yacc2.test
FAIL: yacc3.test
FAIL: yacc4.test
FAIL: yacc5.test
FAIL: yacc6.test
FAIL: yacc7.test
FAIL: yacc8.test
FAIL: yaccpp.test
FAIL: yaccvpath.test
=====================================
517 of 528 tests failed
(23 tests were not run)
Please report to address@hidden
=====================================
gmake[2]: *** [check-TESTS] Error 1
gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/volws/lwv28/ldatae/gnu/automake-1.9.2/tests'
gmake[1]: *** [check-am] Error 2
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/volws/lwv28/ldatae/gnu/automake-1.9.2/tests'
gmake: *** [check-recursive] Error 1

Is there an additional file that I can provide to help debug the
situation?
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