subdir4.test

[Akim Demaille]

This test fails with distcheck and not with check.  My diagnosis is
that it fails because with distcheck the source tree is read only, and
therefore the `depcomp' which is imported by tests/defs is read only
too:

automake-1.4a/=build/tests % ls -l testSubDir/depcomp            nostromo 11:10
-r-xr-xr-x    1 akim     lrde         8159 oct 16 11:06 testSubDir/depcomp*

so when it comes to this snippet of subdir4.fig:

| # With depcomp here at the top level, automake prior to 2000-08-06
| # would mistakenly give the following diagnostic:
| #  automake: configure.in: required file `lib/depcomp' not found
| : > depcomp

it fails:

| ../../tests/subdir4.test: depcomp: Permission non accordée
| FAIL: subdir4.test

So I'd like to apply this patch:

Index: tests/ChangeLog
from  Akim Demaille  <address@hidden>

        * subdir4.test (depcomp): Don't create it, defs does.

Index: tests/subdir4.test
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/automake/automake/tests/subdir4.test,v
retrieving revision 1.1
diff -u -r1.1 subdir4.test
--- tests/subdir4.test 2000/08/06 13:19:58 1.1
+++ tests/subdir4.test 2000/10/16 09:06:21
@@ -27,11 +27,6 @@
 : > AUTHORS
 : > ChangeLog
 
-# With depcomp here at the top level, automake prior to 2000-08-06
-# would mistakenly give the following diagnostic:
-#  automake: configure.in: required file `lib/depcomp' not found
-: > depcomp
-
 cat > Makefile.am << 'END'
 SUBDIRS = lib src
 END


but the problem is that Jim made this on purpose I guess since:

| 2000-08-06  Jim Meyering  <address@hidden>
| 
|         * Makefile.am (TESTS): Add subdir4.test.
|         * subdir4.test: New test for the just-fixed depcomp failure.
| [...]
| 
| 2000-03-19  Tom Tromey  <address@hidden>
| 
|         * libobj2.test: Put depcomp into subdir.
|         * confsub.test: Put depcomp into subdir.
|         * defs: Always copy `depcomp'.

his introduction of subdir4.test was made after that `defs' copies
`depcomp'.  Since I don't understand too well what was your intention,
Jim, I didn't apply it.  But with this patch, Automake checks and
distchecks.