Re: libtool-2.4.2.418 released [alpha]

[Tim Mooney]

> Libtoolers!

> The Libtool Team is pleased to announce the release of libtool 2.4.2.418.

> This is a preliminary alpha release to begin platform testing in
> preparation for the next stable release.

I built 2.4.2.418 on x86_64-pc-solaris2.11 (OpenIndiana 151a8) with
the Oracle Studio 12.3 toolchain.  There was one unexpected failure
in the new test suite:

 21: quote shell meta-characters in filenames        FAILED (libtool.at:120)

If I re-run the test-suite with --verbose, test #21 shows:

21. libtool.at:60: testing quote shell meta-characters in filenames ...
./libtool.at:102: $LIBTOOL -n --mode=$mode $preargs $preflag"$flag:test"
$postargs
stdout:
libtool: compile:  cc -c -DVAR=:test foo.c  -KPIC -DPIC -o .libs/foo.o
libtool: compile:  cc -c -DVAR=:test foo.c -o foo.o >/dev/null 2>&1
./libtool.at:106: grep "$mode:.*$match_preflag$flag:test " stdout
stdout:
libtool: compile:  cc -c -DVAR=:test foo.c  -KPIC -DPIC -o .libs/foo.o
libtool: compile:  cc -c -DVAR=:test foo.c -o foo.o >/dev/null 2>&1
./libtool.at:116: $LIBTOOL -n --mode=$mode $preargs $preflag"$flag\\:test\\" 
$postargs
stdout:
libtool: compile:  cc -c "-DVAR=\\:test\\" foo.c  -KPIC -DPIC -o .libs/foo.o
libtool: compile:  cc -c "-DVAR=\\:test\\" foo.c -o foo.o >/dev/null 2>&1
./libtool.at:120: grep 
"$mode:.*$match_preflag"'"\?'"$flag\\\\\\\\:test\\\\\\\\"'"\? ' stdout
stdout:
./libtool.at:120: exit code was 1, expected 0
21. libtool.at:60:  FAILED (libtool.at:120)


Let me know what other useful information I can provide.

There's a patch after my signature that alters the README to provide
the actual name of the log file from the test suite.

Tim
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--- libtool-2.4.2.418.orig/README       2013-10-26 19:02:00.000000000 -0500
+++ libtool-2.4.2.418/README    2013-11-05 16:16:33.243527395 -0600
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@
 to send the verbose output of the FAILing group, along with the
 information from the end of '$(top_builddir)/libtool --help' to the bug
 report mailing list, <address@hidden> with a subject line that
-includes the string '[TEST FAILURE]'.  The file test-suite.log contains
+includes the string '[TEST FAILURE]'.  The file testsuite.log contains
 the verbose output from all failed tests.

 In order to enable debug shell tracing, you can set VERBOSE=debug when