RE: automake-1.11.1 test results on old OSF/1

[Jay K]

> Is your /bin/sh a Korn Shell in disguise?

How do I know?

> Do you happen to have bash installed on your system?

Yes.

% type bash
bash is /home/jayk/bin/bash

% bash --version
GNU bash, version 4.1.7(1)-release (alphaev67-dec-osf5.1)
Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
...

 > If yes, could you try to run the following

Yes, later.

> Hhmmm... all the failures except the last one seem due to strange
> failures of the `cp' utility... is the cp in your PATH GNU cp, or
> the system cp?

Right, per Ralf, GNU cp.
I'll try without that.

Thanks,
 - Jay

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> From: address@hidden
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: automake-1.11.1 test results on old OSF/1
> Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 22:08:08 +0200
> CC: address@hidden
>
> Hello Jay. Thanks for theport.
>
> On Thursday 19 August 2010, Jay K wrote:
> > > Once the run of `make -k' is terminated, can you send the files
> > > `tests/test-suite.log', `lib/Automake/tests/test-suite.log' and
> > > `config.log' to address@hidden This way other developers
> > > can jump in and analyze the failures.
> > >
> > > Thanks again for your contribution,
> > > Stefano
> >
> > I didn't see tests/test-suite.log,
> Ouch, that's bad. This problem is most probably due to...
> > make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/jayk/obj/automake/tests'
> > make check-TESTS
> > make[2]: Entering directory `/home/jayk/obj/automake/tests'
> > Stack overflow: pid 14948, proc ksh, addr 0x11dffffe0, pc
> > 0x3ff801bbf28 make[3]: Entering directory
> > `/home/jayk/obj/automake/tests'
> ... this crash, which prevented a complete run of the testsuite
> (at least all the `[t-z]*.test' and `*-p.test' tests weren't run,
> and the `test-suite.log' report wasn't generated).
>
> Is your /bin/sh a Korn Shell in disguise? Do you happen to have bash
> installed on your system? If yes, could you try to run the following
> command in your Automake build directory to see if the run of the
> testuite completes?
>
> $ (cd tests && make TEST_LOG_COMPILER=/path/to/bash check)
>
> If yes, would you care to send the `test-suite.log' resulting from
> this run?
>
> > so how about this:
> >
> > tar zcf testlogs.tar.gz config.log tests/*.log
> > lib/Automake/tests/test-suite.log
> > =>
> > http://modula3.elegosoft.com/cm3/uploaded-archives/testlogs.tar.gz
> Yes, this helps. Thank you.
>
> > Note: this is old even for OSF/1, being 5.1, not 5.1a, 5.1b, 5.1f,
> > etc.
>
> > FAIL: distdir.test
> > FAIL: extra5.test
> > FAIL: extra6.test
> > FAIL: extra7.test
> > FAIL: fn99.test
> > FAIL: fn99subdir.test
> > FAIL: nobase-libtool.test
> Hhmmm... all the failures except the last one seem due to strange
> failures of the `cp' utility... is the cp in your PATH GNU cp, or
> the system cp?
>
> Thanks,
> Stefano