Re: Failure of `make.test'

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello,

On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 05:39:27PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> >   to reproduce what the test does, try the following:
> 
> Unfortunately, I can't run it with the in-tree Automake, because
> `autoreconf' won't find $prefix/share/aclocal-1.10, for instance.  How
> can I make it use the in-tree files?

the build tree creates wrappers in the tests/ subdir and then defs
adds that to the beginning of PATH.

But it does not matter here, since:

> > Attached below please find a test similar to that pefofrmed by configure.
> > Could you please try it?  What is the output?
> 
> It displays "none".

It means that "make -w" behaves strange on your platform.  (Try
replacing "make -w" with "make" at the top of the script; then the
answer will be "GNU", right?)

You should report it to the vendor of your platform (NixOS).

OTOH, AFAIK, make -w is not used much, so it is quite probable that
this problem does not affect you in practical life at all.

Have a nice day,
        Stepan