Re: Mac OS X 10.2.8 HEAD test failures.

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Peter,

* Peter O'Gorman wrote on Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 05:11:47PM CET:
> Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> 
> > That's a bug, thanks for catching.  Does it work if _LT_CHECK_BUILDDIR
> > is only m4_require'd?
> > 
> > I assume if that's fixed, there will still be more issues.
> > 
> 
> It works a bit better, now tests fail saying "Autoconf version 2.58 or
> higher is required for this script" which is far more reasonable.
> 
> I am not sure what to do in these cases, sure the tools are old, but
> people will download libtool-2.x and run ./configure; make; make check,
> and it will fail simply because they have older automake & autoconf.
> 
> Should we print a warning at make check time warning users that their
> versions of automake and autoconf are too old to run the testsuite?

For the tests for which it is ok that older autotools are insufficient,
we should just skip the individual test.  I haven't had a chance to look
at the tests to see which ones should work and which ones shouldn't.
In any case the old-iface ones should.

Cheers,
Ralf