Re: libtool-HEAD, 20051007, cygwin

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Charles,

* Charles Wilson wrote on Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 07:28:52PM CEST:
> I ran into an oddity with 'make dist' recently:
> 
> I bootstrapped, compiled, and ran the testsuite[*] on libtool cvs HEAD 
> and got the expected results (see attached).  I then did a 'make dist' 
> (after hand-editing the top-level Makefile to remove references to 
> fcdemo, as I do not have f90 installed).   Then, using the dist tarball, 
> I repeated the process (build, run testsuite).
*snip*
> I have followed this procedure before with no unexpected occurances -- 
> that is, running the testsuite in the build environment from the tarball 
> produced equivalent results as running the testsuite in the build 
> environment generated by the cvs working dir.
> 
> However, this time, the tarball-derived environment failed a number of 
> the "new" tests (see attached):
*snip*
> 
> I can only conclude that something is screwy with regards to 'make 
> dist'.

Please post tests/testsuite.log containing the failures (packed?).
I cannot reproduce this on GNU/Linux (and you posting should be less
work than me trying to reproduce it on cygwin :)

Thank you,
Ralf