bug#19222: Some test failures with LibTool-2.4.4 on non GNU/Linux systems

[Assaf Gordon]

On 12/03/2014 05:05 PM, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> > On Nov 30, 2014, at 1:56 AM, Assaf Gordon <address@hidden> wrote:

<...>

> I can see immediately that most of the failures on your OpenBSD system are 
> caused
> by not having a GNU M4 installed on the path for libtoolize.  I should have 
> been a
> lot more vocal about that change rather than hiding it in the 2.4.3 release 
> notes,
> as it has tripped a lot of people up.  The latest master revision now checks 
> for a
> suitable M4 at configure time, and complains if there is nothing suitable on 
> your
> command search PATH, which I think will help.
>
> May I ask if you would kindly rerun then test suite on that machine and reply 
> with a
> link to the updated logs, after having installed GNU M4 first of course :)

On OpenBSD 5.6, with GNU M4 installed as "/usr/local/bin/gm4",

-1-
Building the latest git ( 2.4.4.8-9f52 ) from a tarball (that is, "git clone && bootstrap && configure && make 
dist" on a GNU/Linux box, then "configure && make && make check" on the OpenBSD VM), two tests fail:
===
  33: demo.at:548        hardcoding library path
      libtoolize automake autoconf
 101: old-ltdl-iface.at:35 Makefile.inc
      libtoolize automake autoconf
===

log here:
http://files.housegordon.org/libtool/openbsd56-libtool-2.4.4.8-9f52.tar.gz

-2-
When bootstrapping on the OpenBSD VM (i.e. "git clone && bootstrap etc") there 
are more errors, indicating perhaps some bad code generation?

===
$ make check
...
32: force non-PIC objects                          
/tmp/libtool/tests/testsuite: 
/tmp/libtool/tests/testsuite.dir/at-groups/32/test-source[70]: syntax error: 
`}' unexpected
testsuite: WARNING: unable to parse test group: 32
testsuite: WARNING: A failure happened in a test group before any test could be
testsuite: WARNING: run. This means that test suite is improperly designed.  
Please
testsuite: WARNING: report this failure to <address@hidden>.
...
====

Logs are here:
http://files.housegordon.org/libtool/openbsd56-libtool-git.make-check.log
http://files.housegordon.org/libtool/openbsd56-libtool-git-9f52.tar.gz

- Assaf