Re: Tests failed with LINENO.

[Paul Eggert]

> From: Akim Demaille <address@hidden>
> Date: 25 Oct 2001 12:37:06 +0200
> 
> You have a very bizarre Perl problem I guess.

Quite possibly.  If it matters:

red $ perl --version

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Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License or the
GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5.0 source kit.

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>         ./testsuite -d -v -x 15
>         ls -ls autom4te.cache
>         ./autom4te -l m4sh test/test-1.as -o test/test-1 -d -v -f

red $ ./testsuite -d -v -x 15
## ------------------------------ ##
## GNU Autoconf 2.52e test suite. ##
## ------------------------------ ##
15. m4sh.at:29: testing LINENO...
+ cat
+ set +vx
m4sh.at:62: autom4te -l m4sh reference.as -o reference
+ autom4te -l m4sh reference.as -o reference
+ set +vx
m4sh.at:63: ./reference
+ ./reference
stdout:
Line: 207
+ mv stdout expout
+ set +vx
m4sh.at:70: mkdir test || exit 77
+ mkdir test
+ cat
+ set +vx
m4sh.at:73: autom4te -l m4sh test/test-1.as -o test/test-1
+ autom4te -l m4sh test/test-1.as -o test/test-1
--- /dev/null   Thu Oct 25 03:46:54 2001
+++ at-stderr   Thu Oct 25 03:46:57 2001
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+autom4te: cannot do autom4te.cache/requests: No such file or directory
+ at /net/knick/home/eggert/src/gnu/tmp/bin/autom4te line 1004
m4sh.at:73: exit code was 1, expected 0
15. m4sh.at:29: FAILED near `m4sh.at:73'
red $ ls -ls autom4te.cache
total 32
  16 -rw-rw-r--   1 eggert   eggert      5882 Oct 25 03:46 output.0
   8 -rw-rw-r--   1 eggert   eggert       828 Oct 25 03:46 requests
   8 -rw-rw-r--   1 eggert   eggert       337 Oct 25 03:46 traces.0
red $ ./autom4te -l m4sh test/test-1.as -o test/test-1 -d -v -f
autom4te: arguments: --include /tmp/prefix/share/autoconf m4sugar/m4sh.m4 
--mode 777 --warning syntax -I /net/knick/home/eggert/src/gnu/tmp/lib -I 
/net/knick/home/eggert/src/gnu/tmp/lib test/test-1.as -o test/test-1

autom4te: cannot do autom4te.cache/requests: No such file or directory
 at /net/knick/home/eggert/src/gnu/tmp/bin/autom4te line 1004