Re: [GNU Autoconf 2.64] testsuite: 30 failed

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote on Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 11:21:15PM CEST:
> On Tuesday 28 of July 2009, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> >
> > > +>                         'AM_GNU_GETTEXT_INTL_SUBDIR' => 1,
> >
> > This seems to be the issue.  This macro is (correctly) traced by your
> > automake, but seemingly not by your aclocal nor by autoconf.  That's
> > weird, though, because autoconf/lib/autom4te.in contains an entry for
> > AM_GNU_GETTEXT_INTL_SUBDIR since 2006.
> 
> Oh! I forgot about local patch that removes this one... it's from 2006 
> commited with log message:
> 
> "- don't preselect AM_GNU_GETTEXT_INTL_SUBDIR, it breaks 
> AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external])"
> 
> Not sure if the "breaks AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external])" is still there because I 
> don't even remember what that issue really was. I guess something didn't work 
> well if there was no (need for internal) intl subdirectory.

I cannot imagine any reason why an additional default-traced macro could
have caused any breakage whatsoever.  So if you have data to back this
up, and your patch did not also have any other component, I'd be
interested to see that, even if it applies to an old Autoconf version
only.

The only reason not all macros are traced by default is for efficiency
and size of the trace output file.

> > > ./tools.at:1062: exit code was 1, expected 0
> > > 30. tools.at:1025: 30. autom4te preselections (tools.at:1025): FAILED
> > > (tools.at:1062)
> >
> > BTW2, what shell is your /bin/sh, that the parallel autotest tests are
> > skipped?
> 
> pdksh with tons of patches. Closest pdksh to mine is available in Debian.

Bug fixes, I hope.

Cheers,
Ralf