bug#9147: 6 test failures on Fedora 15 with latest from git

[Jim Meyering]

Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> Hi Jim, thanks for the report.

Hi Stefano,

Thanks for the quick response.

>> I built the latest and ran "make check TESTSUITEFLAGS=-j20" on Fedora 15.
>>
> Note that the `TESTSUITEFLAGS' variable has no effect on Automake-generated
> testsuite harness.  What you probably wanted was simply "make check -j20".
...
>
> A fix for these failures (which I've only encountered when running the
> automake testsuite with Linux -> MinGW cross compilers) should have
> been applied to the testsuite-work branch some time ago (see commit
> `v1.11-871-geb147a1', "lex tests: avoid spurious failures when LEXLIB
> isn't found").

Good!  Will this fix make it to "master" soon?

>> FAIL: txinfo21.test (exit: 1)
>> =============================
...
>> + test -d rec/main3.html
>> + is_newest main.html main.texi
>> ++ find main.html main.texi -newer main.html
>> + is_newest_files=main.html/index.html
>> + test -z main.html/index.html
>> + exit_status=1
>> + set +e
>> + cd /h/j/w/co/automake/tests
>> + case $exit_status,$keep_testdirs in
>> + test 0 '!=' 0
>> + echo 'txinfo21: exit 1'
>> txinfo21: exit 1
>> + exit 1
>>
> Ah, a failure I've introduced in 'maint' with commit `v1.11-360-ga370e2f'
> "tests: fix spurious failure of txinfo21.test on FreeBSD".  It is due
> to a limitation of the `is_newest' subroutine I hadn't thought about
> (i.e., it doesn't work as expected on directories).  Should we hack
> around this, or try to fix the `is_newest' subroutine instead?  I think
> fixing `is_newest' is the best route. Anyway, I'll be AFK until tomorrow,
> but then I'll give it a try (unless someone wants to beat me ;-)

I can wait ;-)
Thanks.

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