RE: [autoconf 2.63] 95 of 353 tests fail

[Howard Larson]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith Marshall [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 06:44
> To: address@hidden
> Cc: Howard Larson; 'Ralf Wildenhues'; 'Eric Blake'
> Subject: Re: [autoconf 2.63] 95 of 353 tests fail
> 
> 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.
> 
As an experiment, I tried to build m4 using the directory structure
described by Keith.  make failed on entering
/c/GnuWin32/m4build/lib/stdlib.h with error 'cannot open include file: ''

The same error previously ocurred for libtool make.  I think this is
significant.  Why are the header files being written with #include ''?

Regards,
Howard  Larson