Re: aclocal7.test fail only

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Matthew,

Thanks for the bug report.

* Matthew sullivan wrote on Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 02:16:20PM CEST:
> i am building lfs from the live cd as per book exactly
> 
> these are the temporary tools (which are totally unchecked)
> # Linux-Libc-Headers-2.6.12.0# Glibc-2.3.6# Tcl-8.4.13# Expect-5.43.0#
> DejaGNU-1.4.4# GCC-4.0.3 - Pass 2# Binutils-2.16.1 - Pass 2#
> Ncurses-5.5# Bash-3.1# Bzip2-1.0.3# Coreutils-5.96# Diffutils-2.8.1#
> Findutils-4.2.27# Gawk-3.1.5# Gettext-0.14.5# Grep-2.5.1a# Gzip-1.3.5#
> M4-1.4.4# Make-3.80# Patch-2.5.4# Perl-5.8.8# Sed-4.1.5# Tar-1.15.1#
> Texinfo-4.8# Util-linux-2.12r
> 
> i have these packages already installed to the new file system
> #  Linux-Libc-Headers-2.6.12.0# Man-pages-2.34# Glibc-2.3.6#
> Binutils-2.16.1# GCC-4.0.3# Berkeley DB-4.4.20# Coreutils-5.96#
> ana-Etc-2.10# M4-1.4.4# Bison-2.2# Ncurses-5.5# Procps-3.2.6#
> Sed-4.1.5# Libtool-1.5.22# Perl-5.8.8# Readline-5.1# Zlib-1.2.3#
> Autoconf-2.59
> 
> i run build check and get 1 fail from 531 which i tracked to aclocal7
> and ran it verbose with result below
> 
> root:/sources/automake-1.9.6# make check TESTS=aclocal7.test VERBOSE=x
*snip*
> make[4]: *** No rule to make target `aclocal7.test', needed by [...]

You did everything right, except there's one bit of documentation that 
should probably be in the README file but isn't: you need to run that
command in the tests subdirectory of your build tree.  So, please show
the output of
  cd tests
  make check TESTS=aclocal7.test VERBOSE=x

Thank you.

And, FWIW, I would consider it a bit dangerous to build as root.  I
usually do this as user when installing software:
  ../configure
  make
  make check
  su -c 'make install'

(Of course, lfs may wrap things differently; I don't know about their ways.)

Cheers,
Ralf