RE: Automake 1.10 "make check" created 519 errors

[robert . swafford]

Hi Ralf.  You were right about the autoconf version.  I did mean 2.59,
and today I did upgrade to 2.61, which solved the whole problem.  It
passed every test.  I should have ensured my autoconf was current before
I bothered you, sorry.

Thanks very much for your help.

Robert Swafford

-----Original Message-----
From: Ralf Wildenhues [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 2:39 PM
To: Swafford, Robert P. @ TMSD
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: Automake 1.10 "make check" created 519 errors

Hello Robert,

Thanks for the report.

* address@hidden wrote on Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 11:30:54PM
CEST:
> I ran configure and make with no switches and got no errors.

Hmm, that's weird, in conjunction with all the test failures.

> The legacy automake and autoconf are both version 1.9.

Autoconf 1.9 is really really old (from 1994).  Did you mean 2.59 by any
chance?  Anyway, for Automake 1.10 you will need Autoconf 2.60 or newer
installed so that Automake can find the programs installed by Autoconf.

> Let me know if there's any info you need or anything I can help you
> with (e.g., testing).

> 519 of 536 tests failed
> (68 tests were not run)

Could you go to the build tree and run
   env VERBOSE=yes make -e check

and stop the testing soon, look at one of the test failures?  If you
can't spot the error, please post the output of one such failure.

Thanks,
Ralf