Re: Mac OS X 10.2.8 HEAD test failures.

[Peter O'Gorman]

Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Hi Peter,
> 
> * Peter O'Gorman wrote on Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 05:11:47PM CET:
>> Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
>>
>>> That's a bug, thanks for catching.  Does it work if _LT_CHECK_BUILDDIR
>>> is only m4_require'd?
>>>
>>> I assume if that's fixed, there will still be more issues.
>>>
>> It works a bit better, now tests fail saying "Autoconf version 2.58 or
>> higher is required for this script" which is far more reasonable.
>>
>> I am not sure what to do in these cases, sure the tools are old, but
>> people will download libtool-2.x and run ./configure; make; make check,
>> and it will fail simply because they have older automake & autoconf.
>>
>> Should we print a warning at make check time warning users that their
>> versions of automake and autoconf are too old to run the testsuite?
> 
> For the tests for which it is ok that older autotools are insufficient,
> we should just skip the individual test.  I haven't had a chance to look
> at the tests to see which ones should work and which ones shouldn't.
> In any case the old-iface ones should.

Hah, I just looked to see where the 2.58 requirement was coming from ...
it is, of course LT_INIT. Any autotest test that uses autoconf will fail
with older autoconf (including old-iface).

Peter
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