Re: minor regression: config header templates

[Jim Meyering]

On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 10:15 PM Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:
> When testing the latest automake with autoconf-2.69, all of automake's
> tests pass. But with the latest autoconf (built from master) in my
> path, two tests "FAIL", as below. I bisected to v2.69-181-g78ad1b0b,
> aka 
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/autoconf.git/commit/?id=v2.69-181-g78ad1b0b
>
> I plan to release automake-1.16.2 very soon (from master), maybe even
> tomorrow. This does not block my planned automake release, but it'd be
> great to resolve soon, nonetheless.
>
> FAIL: t/autohdr4
> ================
>
> Running from installcheck: no
> Test Protocol: none
> PATH = /home/j/w/co/automake/bin:/home/j/w/co/automake/t/ax:/usr/share/Modul
> es/bin:/usr/lib64/ccache:/home/j/bin:/p/bin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/
> bin:/usr/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local:/usr/local/bin
> ++ pwd
> /home/j/w/co/automake/t/autohdr4.dir
> + cat
> + mkdir sub1 sub2 sub3
> + :
> + echo '#define NAME "grepme1"'
> + cat
> + cat
> + cat
> + aclocal-1.16 -Werror
> + autoconf
> + autoheader
> autoheader: cannot open sub2/config.${BOT}: No such file or directory
> + am_exit_trap 1
> + exit_status=1
> + set +e
> + cd /home/j/w/co/automake
> + test none = tap
> + case $am_explicit_skips in
> + test 1 -eq 0
> + keep_testdirs=yes
> + am_keeping_testdirs
> + case $keep_testdirs in
> + return 0
> + set +x
> FAIL t/autohdr4.sh (exit status: 1)
>
> FAIL: t/autohdr-subdir-pr12495
> ==============================
> ... similar.
>
> Full disclosure, bisection details:
>
> # Build at each iteration with this:
> autoreconf -vi && ./configure --prefix=/tmp/ac && make && (
> PATH=`pwd`/tests:$PATH; autoreconf -vi ) && make install
>
> # Test like this:
> (cd ~/automake && PATH=/tmp/ac/bin:$PATH make check TESTS=t/autohdr4.sh)

Hi Daniel (Cc'd), since the problematic commit is from you, would you
please see if you can adjust it not to cause that regression?