Re: [GNU Autoconf 2.59] testsuite: 69 71 136 146 162 failed

[Paul Eggert]

Michael Eisenstein <address@hidden> writes:

> I ran the line:
>
> ls -1 | sed '/^at-/d;/^state-/d;/^config\./d' | sort
>
> inside autoconf-2.59(this is the directory where the autoconf-2.59.tar
> was extracted).  The output did not have any duplicate lines.  I also
> ran the command line in the tests subdirectory and did not find any
> duplicate lines.  Please let me know if there was another directory
> you wanted this command run in.

Since test #136 is one of the ones that is failing, you might try
something like this after "make check" fails:

cd tests
./testsuite -v -d 136
cd testsuite.dir/136
ls -1 | sed '/^at-/d;/^state-/d;/^config\./d' | sort

> Could you tell me more about what the test output means?  I'm not
> clear about what "expout" is versus the "+++" line below it.

"expout" is the expected output, and the next line "at-stdout" is the
actual output.  Those lines are in "diff -u" format.  Somehow the
actual output contains a duplicate of the testsuite.log file.
It's not yet clear to me whether this is an autoconf bug or a bug
somewhere else in your system.

> What is the acprograms.at:23AC_RSH testing?

It's line 23 of the file tests/acprograms.at.  It attempts to test the
AC_RSH macro.  This is an obsolete macro and is no big deal but some
of the other failures with similar symptoms are a bigger deal.

> Thanks for the information.  Also should I forward this message on to
> others who are FORTRAN knowledgeable that are supporting the autoconf

<address@hidden> is the way to go.