Re: GNU Autoconf 2.53] testsuite.log: 1 failures

[Akim Demaille]

| Hope this helps!

It will, thanks!  Could I ask you do follow the steps at the end of
this message? TIA!

| ## --------- ##
| ## Platform. ##
| ## --------- ##
| 
| hostname = KANDAVA
| uname -m = i686
| uname -r = 1.3.9(0.51/3/2)
| uname -s = CYGWIN_NT-4.0
| uname -v = 2002-01-21 12:48

Hm, cygwin...


| ## ----------------------------- ##
| ## GNU Autoconf 2.53 test suite. ##
| ## ----------------------------- ##
| 28. torture.at:110: testing AC_CONFIG_FILES, HEADERS, LINKS and COMMANDS...
| torture.at:144: autoconf 
| torture.at:174: top_srcdir=$abs_top_srcdir ./configure what_to_test=file
| stdout:
| configure: creating ./config.status
| config.status: creating file
| torture.at:174: ls header var-header file var-file command var-command link 
var-link 2>/dev/null
| torture.at:174: grep OK file
| torture.at:174: top_srcdir=$abs_top_srcdir ./configure what_to_test=var-file 
--no-create
| stdout:
| configure: creating ./config.status
| torture.at:174: ./config.status var-file </dev/null
| --- /dev/null Wed Mar 13 22:36:34 2002
| +++ /home/derek/autoconf-2.53/tests/testsuite.dir/at-stderr   Wed Mar 13 
22:36:35 2002
| @@ -0,0 +1 @@
| +stty: standard input: Not a character device
| stdout:
| config.status: creating var-file
| 28. torture.at:110: FAILED near `torture.at:174'


So, apparently there is a use of /dev/null it doesn't like somewhere.
Can I ask you to do this please:

        cd tests
        ./testsuite 28 -d -v -x
        cd testsuite.dir/028
        sh -x ./config.status var-file </dev/null

and send the output.

Thanks!