Re: [autoconf 2.63] 95 of 353 tests fail

[Keith Marshall]

On Friday 19 September 2008 21:31:15 Howard Larson wrote:
> > FWIW Ralf, I've just built autoconf-2.63 on an MSYS-1.0.11 box at
> > work.  No errors in building.  I've left the testsuite running,
> > but will not be able to report the final result until Monday; (I
> > don't use msw on my own boxes).
> >
> > So far, (it has reached test #230), eleven tests have been
> > skipped: (26, 27, 28, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 183, 184 and 218),
> > and there has been one expected failure: (91); all the rest have
> > reported `ok'.
>
> I did not receive errors for the autoconf build, either.  Nor, for
> the automake build.  It is when the libtool build failed that I
> began to investigate starting with autoconf make check.

I don't dispute that you are experiencing problems, which I may not be 
seeing; the above is merely an indication that, at the point where I 
left it on Friday afternoon, I was seeing no evidence of any problem.

Indeed, on returning to it, I find that I am unable to reproduce your 
problem:--

  ## ----------------------------- ##
  ## GNU Autoconf 2.63 test suite. ##
  ## ----------------------------- ##

  testsuite: command line was:
    $ ./testsuite

  [...]

  testsuite: ending at: Fri Sep 19 20:43:12 GMTDT 2008
  testsuite: test suite duration: 7h 16m 27s

  ## ------------- ##
  ## Test results. ##
  ## ------------- ##

  352 tests behaved as expected.
  12 tests were skipped.

So, what are we doing differently, or what system differences do we 
have, which allow me to complete this without errors, where you are 
experiencing difficulties?

FTR, my system is Win2K-SP4, with MSYS-1.0.10 installed, and upgraded 
subsequently to MSYS-1.0.11, by simply installing the update packages 
as they have been made available.  I did:--

  $ mkdir -p foo/bld-autoconf
  $ cd foo
  $ bunzip2 -c ~/download/autoconf-2.63.tar.bz2 | tar xf -
  $ cd bld-autoconf
  $ ../autoconf-2.63/configure
  $ make
  $ make check

Full testsuite.log is attached.

-- 

Regards,
Keith.

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