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From: | Bob Friesenhahn |
Subject: | Re: automake 1.11.3 check-TESTS and command line length |
Date: | Sat, 31 Mar 2012 11:16:26 -0500 (CDT) |
User-agent: | Alpine 2.01 (GSO 1266 2009-07-14) |
On Wed, 22 Feb 2012, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
Hi Bob, sorry for the delay. On 02/19/2012 07:55 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:I am again bit by automake not being able run the test suite on systems with bounded command line length. Up to automake 1.11.2 I was able to apply a patch by Ralf Wildenhues.Which patch are you referring to exactly?With 1.11.3 the implementation is totally different and the patch has no hope of applying.How does this later patch of mine fares? <http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=7868#31> Caveat: it works for GNU make only, and it's *really ugly*. So ugly that I don't feel like applying it to automake proper.
I have not tried this patch, and indeed it is really ugly.Since another Automake release is forthcoming, please treat this email as a 'ping' that this problem still exists in Automake and that there is still ongoing impact.
Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn address@hidden, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
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