Re: make check failures

[Graham Reitz]

Thanks for the help.   Here is the requested information:

> Could you please post also the `config.log' generated by configur


config.log:

config.log
Description: Binary data

> and the results of the following commands:
> 
> $HOME/root/usr/local/bin/autoconf --version
> $HOME/root/usr/local/bin/autom4te --version

golan-trevize:automake grahamreitz$ $HOME/root/usr/local/bin/autoconf --version
autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.68
Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+/Autoconf: GNU GPL version 3 or later
<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>, <http://gnu.org/licenses/exceptions.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by David J. MacKenzie and Akim Demaille.

golan-trevize:automake grahamreitz$ $HOME/root/usr/local/bin/autom4te --version
autom4te (GNU Autoconf) 2.68
Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+/Autoconf: GNU GPL version 3 or later
<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>, <http://gnu.org/licenses/exceptions.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by Akim Demaille.

>From normal path.

golan-trevize:automake grahamreitz$ autoconf --version
autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.61
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software.  You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by David J. MacKenzie and Akim Demaille.

golan-trevize:automake grahamreitz$ autom4te --version
autom4te (GNU Autoconf) 2.61
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software.  You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by Akim Demaille.



> and finally tell us whether AUTOCONF and AUTOM4TE are defined in
> your environment (and if yes, to what values and versions)?


golan-trevize:automake grahamreitz$ echo $AUTOCONF

golan-trevize:automake grahamreitz$ echo $AUTOM4TE

golan-trevize:automake grahamreitz$ 

If you need more I'd be happy to try and send the results.

Kindly,
graham



On May 24, 2011, at 12:14 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote:

> On Tuesday 24 May 2011, Graham Reitz wrote:
>>> Did you copy-paste that line?
>> 
>> Yea, copy/paste error when I manually removed the full path.
>> 
>>> Could you please post the resulting `test-suite.log'?  It's hard
>>> to tell what's going on without more information ...
>> 
>> 
>> Absolutely, I didn't want to pollute the list if this was an error or
>> lack of knowledge on my part.
>> 
> Hmm... from the errors I see in `test-suite.log', it appears that you
> haven't managed to correctly override AUTOM4TE after all ...
> 
> Or maybe, do you have AUTOM4TE exported in the environment, and
> pointing to your system autom4te? (which, as we've already seen,
> is too old for latest automake).  Consider that automake honours
> the AUTOCONF and AUTOM4TE env vars *at runtime also*, not only at
> configure time; so exporting those variables effectively clobbers
> the choices made at configure time.
> 
> Could you please post also the `config.log' generated by configure,
> and the results of the following commands:
> 
> $HOME/root/usr/local/bin/autoconf --version
> $HOME/root/usr/local/bin/autom4te --version
> 
> and finally tell us whether AUTOCONF and AUTOM4TE are defined in
> your environment (and if yes, to what values and versions)?
> 
> Sorry for not having asked this useful information right away.
> 
> Regards,
>  Stefano
>