Re: [GNU Autoconf 2.63] testsuite: 144 failed

[Eric Blake]

Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen <at> simple.dallas.tx.us> writes:

> 
> The testsuite.log showing a failed test under Solaris 10 is attached.

And the interesting portion:

! 144. base.at:295: testing ...
! /home/bfriesen/src/gnu/autoconf-2.63/tests/base.at:302: autoconf --force 
! /home/bfriesen/src/gnu/autoconf-2.63/tests/base.at:303: echo Hello |
! ./configure | grep -v 'configure: loading site script '
! 0a1,10
! > Applying settings for 32-bit build ...
! > Using GCC 4.2.3 ...

> 
> Please let me know if the release is still safe to use based on what 
> failed.

Looks like the culprit is a verbose config.site.  Therefore, this represents a 
testsuite bug, where the testsuite is not tolerant of the extra output from 
your config.site, and not a bug in the built autoconf.  You are safe to install 
this release, and I will work on a patch to make the testsuite more tolerant of 
setups like yours.  In other words, the testsuite currently builds configure.ac 
like so:

[[AC_INIT
cat <&AS_ORIGINAL_STDIN_FD >&AS_MESSAGE_FD
]])

when it should really do something like:

[[AC_INIT
echo >&AS_MESSAGE_FD
echo string not likely to be printed by verbose config.site >&AS_MESSAGE_FD
cat <&AS_ORIGINAL_STDIN_FD >&AS_MESSAGE_FD
]])

and swap from "grep -v 'configure...'" to "sed '1,/not likely/d'".

In the meantime, you may want to patch your config.site to be silent.

-- 
Eric Blake