Re: make maintainer-check broke

[Bob Rossi]

On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 03:21:25PM -0500, Joel E. Denny wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, Bob Rossi wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 03:13:30PM -0500, Joel E. Denny wrote:
> > > On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, Bob Rossi wrote:
> > > 
> > > > make maintainer-check recently broke in CVS.
> > > > 
> > > > $ make maintainer-check
> > > > cd tests && make  maintainer-check
> > > > make[1]: Entering directory `/home/bob/cvs/bison/round2/bison/tests'
> > > > ./testsuite POSIXLY_CORRECT=1 _POSIX2_VERSION=200112
> > > > c++: no input files
> > > > ./testsuite: line 657: syntax error near unexpected token `('
> > > > ./testsuite: line 657: `44;output.at:190;Output file name: (;c++;'
> > > > make[1]: *** [maintainer-check-posix] Error 2
> > > > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/bob/cvs/bison/round2/bison/tests'
> > > > make: *** [maintainer-check] Error 2
> > > 
> > > I don't have this trouble.  What version of Autoconf are you running?  
> > > I'm running 2.61.
> > 
> > $ autoconf --version
> > autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.60
> > Written by David J. MacKenzie and Akim Demaille.
> > 
> > I just did a fresh check out, with no patches, and reproduced the
> > problem.
> 
> 2.61 has some corrections regarding strange test case titles, which my 
> recent patches add to Bison.  I can't promise it'll fix your problem, but 
> we should start there.

I need to upgrade? If so, you should put an AC_REQUIRE line, for 2.61.

Thanks,
Bob Rossi