Re: 1.9.5b testsuite failures on cygwin

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello Eric,

On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 08:06:10PM +0000, Eric Blake wrote:
> tar.test: no idea what is going wrong here, [...]

the log shows that distcheck is failing.

It seems there are some problems with time stamps.  On Unices, the standard
guess would be that you might have time skew between the host and a NFS server.
But on Cygwin, it'll be something else.

Let me explain what happens: "make distcheck" creates a dist tarball, then
unpackes it, flags the unpacked copy read-only and performs an VPATH build
in subdir _build.

But that build wants to refresh aclocal.m4.  This shouldn't happen; and I guess
that the reason is that there are problem with time stamps on your host.

The result is:
cd .. && /bin/bash 
/home/eblake/automake-1.9.5b/tests/testSubDir/tar-1.0/missing --run aclocal-1.9
aclocal: cannot open > aclocal.m4: Permission denied

This message is a consequence of the fact that the source tree is flagged
read-only.  But the real problem is that make shouldn't try to rebuild
aclocal.m4 .

Hope this helps you to diagnose the problem and find the ultimate cause.

> txinfo*.test [...] I might have a broken texi2dvi installation.

Indeed, the following error lines indicate that etex cannot find it's
format file:

texi2dvi ../zardoz.texi
This is e-TeXk, Version 3.141592-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4)
[...]
---! /var/lib/texmf/web2c/etex.fmt was written by pdfetex
(Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)

What if you try to compile an texinfo file by "tex" or "etex", not texi2dvi?

(Try unpacking texinfo-4.8, ./configure && cd doc && tex texinfo.txi
Then "make clean" and "etex texinfo.txi".  I guess TeX might be OK, but
eTeX will complain.)

Hope these hints save you some time,
        Stepan