Re: [GNU Autoconf 2.63b] testsuite: 398 failed

[Eric Blake]

On 08/03/2011 03:56 PM, Samuel Caillaud wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I tried to upgrade autoconf2.61 to autoconf2.63 on my mac OS X 10.5.8.
> First I upgrade m4 then autoconf, automake and finally libtool.
> When I finished this, I ran make check on autoconf.
> The testsuite results are attached to this mail.

Thanks for taking the time to report this.  However, 2.63b is quite old; 
would you mind repeating with 2.68?

> #                             -*- compilation -*-
> 398. foreign.at:28: testing ...
> ./foreign.at:31: libtoolize --version || exit 77
> stderr:
> stdout:
> libtoolize (GNU libtool) 2.4
> Written by Gary V. Vaughan <address@hidden>, 2003
>
> Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
> warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
> ./foreign.at:34:
> case `libtoolize --version |
>       sed -n '/^.* \([0-9][0-9.a-z]*\)$/{
>                 s//\1/
>                 p
>                 q
>         }'` in
>   0.*          ) exit 77;;
>   1.[0123]*    ) exit 77;;
> esac
> Not enabling shell tracing (command contains a `...` command substitution)
> stderr:
> stdout:
> ./foreign.at:56: touch aclocal.m4
> ./foreign.at:57: libtoolize
> stderr:
> libtoolize: `/usr/share/libtool/config/ltmain.sh' does not exist.
> stdout:
> ./foreign.at:57: exit code was 1, expected 0
> 398. foreign.at:28: 398. Libtool (foreign.at:28): FAILED (foreign.at:57)

Looks like an installation problem on your end for libtoolize, and not a 
bug in autoconf (although patches are welcome to teach the testsuite how 
to recognize this libtoolize failure and skip rather than fail the test).

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