automake-1.6 test failures on Solaris 8 (INTEL)

[Peter Bray]

Greetings,

I'm was installing automake-1.6 on Solaris 8 (INTEL) and noticed the
following problems:

Note: that GNU Make is installed as "gmake" on this system, other GNU tools
also have a "g" prefix when there name would clash with a Solaris command.
As this makes life easier for all concerned.

/tmp/automake-1.6/tests
address@hidden % gmake check TESTS="ansi5.test ccnoco.test extra6.test 
pr87.test pr224.test pr300-lib.test pr300-prog.test subdir5.test subobj6.test 
yacc8.test yaccvpath.test"
gmake  check-TESTS
gmake[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/automake-1.6/tests'
FAIL: ansi5.test
FAIL: ccnoco.test
FAIL: extra6.test
FAIL: pr87.test
FAIL: pr224.test
FAIL: pr300-lib.test
FAIL: pr300-prog.test
XPASS: subdir5.test
FAIL: subobj6.test
FAIL: yacc8.test
FAIL: yaccvpath.test
===============================================================
11 of 11 tests did not behave as expected (1 unexpected passes)
===============================================================
gmake[1]: *** [check-TESTS] Error 1
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/automake-1.6/tests'
gmake: *** [check-am] Error 2

===========================================================================
The Failures I can explain ....
===========================================================================

I started with ansi5.test in VERBOSE mode noticed that "make" was having
trouble reading the Makefile. I tried "gmake MAKE=gmake" with no luck, but
setting the environment variable MAKE fixed 8 of the 11 problems.

/tmp/automake-1.6/tests
address@hidden % MAKE=gmake gmake check TESTS="ansi5.test ccnoco.test 
extra6.test pr87.test pr224.test pr300-lib.test pr300-prog.test subdir5.test 
subobj6.test yacc8.test yaccvpath.test"
gmake  check-TESTS
gmake[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/automake-1.6/tests'
PASS: ansi5.test
PASS: ccnoco.test
FAIL: extra6.test
PASS: pr87.test
PASS: pr224.test
FAIL: pr300-lib.test
FAIL: pr300-prog.test
XFAIL: subdir5.test
PASS: subobj6.test
PASS: yacc8.test
PASS: yaccvpath.test
====================
3 of 11 tests failed
====================
gmake[1]: *** [check-TESTS] Error 1
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/automake-1.6/tests'
gmake: *** [check-am] Error 2

===========================================================================
The Failures I can't explain ....
===========================================================================

/tmp/automake-1.6/tests
address@hidden % VERBOSE=1 MAKE=gmake gmake TESTS="extra6.test pr300-lib.test 
pr300-prog.test" check
gmake  check-TESTS
gmake[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/automake-1.6/tests'
=== Running test ./extra6.test
checking for a BSD compatible install... /pkgs/bin/ginstall -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for mawk... no
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether gmake sets ${MAKE}... yes
checking for a BSD compatible install... /pkgs/bin/ginstall -c
checking whether gmake sets ${MAKE}... (cached) yes
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
{ test ! -d extra6-1.0  || { find extra6-1.0 -type d ! -perm -200 -exec chmod 
u+w {} ';'  && rm -fr extra6-1.0; }; }
mkdir extra6-1.0
/bin/sh ../mkinstalldirs extra6-1.0/foo extra6-1.0/foo2
mkdir -p -- extra6-1.0/foo extra6-1.0/foo2
mkdir -p -- extra6-1.0/../foo
find extra6-1.0 -type d ! -perm -777 -exec chmod a+rwx {} \; -o \
  ! -type d ! -perm -444 -links 1 -exec chmod a+r {} \; -o \
  ! -type d ! -perm -400 -exec chmod a+r {} \; -o \
  ! -type d ! -perm -444 -exec /bin/sh 
/tmp/automake-1.6/tests/testSubDir/install-sh -c -m a+r {} {} \; \
|| chmod -R a+r extra6-1.0
test -f extra6-1.0/foo/bar/baz
*** Error code 1
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `check'
FAIL: extra6.test
=== Running test ./pr300-lib.test
configure.in:8: error: `Makefile' is already registered with AC_CONFIG_FILES or 
AC_OUTPUT.
acgeneral.m4:3399: AC_CONFIG_FILES is expanded from...
configure.in:8: the top level
FAIL: pr300-lib.test
=== Running test ./pr300-prog.test
configure.in:7: error: `Makefile' is already registered with AC_CONFIG_FILES or 
AC_OUTPUT.
acgeneral.m4:3399: AC_CONFIG_FILES is expanded from...
configure.in:7: the top level
FAIL: pr300-prog.test
===================
3 of 3 tests failed
===================
gmake[1]: *** [check-TESTS] Error 1
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/automake-1.6/tests'
gmake: *** [check-am] Error 2
/tmp/automake-1.6/tests
address@hidden % gmake clean
gmake: Nothing to be done for `clean'.