Re: Subject: [GNU Autoconf 2.67] testsuite: 233 failed

[Eric Blake]

On 09/20/2010 04:16 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 09/20/2010 08:56 AM, rochan wrote:
> > In a Mac OSX 10.6.2, attached is log file.
>
> Thanks for the report. However, your attachment was truncated, and
> didn't give us any details of the actual failing test. Would you mind
> attaching the file tests/testsuite.dir/233/testsuite.log from your
> failed test run? Also, can you convince your mailer to send attachments
> with mime type plain/text instead of application/octet-stream, to make
> it easier to read?
>
> I'm wondering if test 233 in the 2.67 release (Define to a 2000-byte
> string) is triggering some native tool limits, in which case this may
> still be an issue to resolve prior to releasing 2.68.

I managed to get on a Darwin machine (MacOS X 10.5.5), and reproduced 
your failure:

233. torture.at:854: testing Substitute and define special characters ...
./torture.at:918: autoconf --force
./torture.at:918: /bin/sh -n configure
./torture.at:919: autoheader
./torture.at:923: ./configure $configure_options $awk_arg
stdout:
checking for gawk... gawk
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Foo
config.status: creating Zardoz
config.status: creating config.h
./torture.at:924: cat Foo
./torture.at:937: cmp allowed-chars Zardoz
--- /dev/null   2010-09-20 16:29:29.448470000 -0600
+++ 
/u/guest/blake/autoconf-2.67/tests/testsuite.dir/at-groups/233/stdout 
    2010-09-20 16:29:29.891281315 -0600
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+allowed-chars Zardoz differ: char 168, line 2
./torture.at:937: exit code was 1, expected 0

I'm now looking into it further, first by trying to see if it is still 
present in the latest autoconf.git.

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