Re: [GNU Autoconf 2.61] testsuite: 279 296 failed

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Timothy,

Thanks for the bug report.

* Timothy Madden wrote on Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 09:20:10AM CET:
> I have mingw32/msys and I have just compiled gcc-4.1.1 and m4 1.4.
[...]
> #                             -*- compilation -*-
> 279. acfunctions.at:26: testing ...
> ./acfunctions.at:26: autoconf --force -W obsolete
> --- /dev/null Sun Mar 18 02:15:08 2007
> +++ /usr/src/autoconf-2.61/tests/testsuite.dir/at-stderr      Sun Mar 18 
> 02:15:07 2007
> @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
> +configure.ac:5: warning: _AC_Header_sys_ime_ is m4_require'd but not 
> m4_defun'd
> +autoconf/headers.m4:218: AC_CHECK_HEADERS_ONCE is expanded from...
> +autoconf/functions.m4:1172: AC_FUNC_MKTIME is expanded from...
> +configure.ac:5: the top level
> +configure.ac:5: warning: _AC_Header_ustd_h is m4_require'd but not m4_defun'd
> +configure:2649: error: possibly undefined macro: _AC_Header_sys_ime_
> +      If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
> +      See the Autoconf documentation.
> +configure:2650: error: possibly undefined macro: _AC_Header_ustd_h
> ./acfunctions.at:26: exit code was 1, expected 0
> 279. acfunctions.at:26: 279. AC_FUNC_MKTIME (acfunctions.at:26): FAILED 
> (acfunctions.at:26)

This is most certainly due to the old M4 version.  1.4.8 is current, you
should use that.

> #                             -*- compilation -*-
> 296. foreign.at:28: testing install-sh ltconfig libtool at-path ltmain.sh 
> config.guess config.sub...
> ./foreign.at:32: libtoolize --version || exit 77
> stderr:
> stdout:
> libtoolize (GNU libtool) 1.5.22
[...]
> ./foreign.at:66: sed -n "s,^.*\`\\(/[^']*\\)'.*,\\1,p" stdout
> stdout:
> ./foreign.at:67: test -f "`cat stdout`"
> ./foreign.at:67: exit code was 1, expected 0
> 296. foreign.at:28: 296. Libtool (foreign.at:28): FAILED (foreign.at:67)

Not yet sure why this is, but I don't remember seeing this failure.
I'll put it on my list of things to try out sometime.

Cheers,
Ralf