bug#10426: 3 of 872 tests failed on openSUSE 12.1

[Stefano Lattarini]

On 01/03/2012 04:09 AM, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Hi,
>
Hello Bruno, thanks for the report.

> On openSUSE 12.1 system, installation of automake 1.11.2 fails:
> 
> FAIL: instfail.test
> FAIL: pr300-lib.test
> FAIL: pr300-ltlib.test
> 
> =====================================
> 3 of 872 tests failed
> (39 tests were not run)
> See tests/test-suite.log
> Please report to address@hidden
> =====================================
> 
> The first failure is because I have a dysfunctional 'emacs' program in $PATH:
> 
Then I'd say this is not an automake bug, nor a testsuite weakness.

> FAIL: pr300-lib.test (exit: 1)
> ==============================
> 
> [SNIP]
>
> gcc (SUSE Linux) 4.6.2
> Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
> warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
> 
> === Running test ./pr300-lib.test
> ++ pwd
> /home/bruno/data/build/automake-1.11.2/tests/pr300-lib.dir
>
[SNIP]

> + make install
> make[1]: Entering directory `/data/bruno/build/automake-1.11.2/tests/pr300-
> lib.dir'
> test -z 
> "/home/bruno/data/build/automake-1.11.2/tests/pr300-lib.dir/inst/lib64"
>
Uh?  Where us this `lib64' coming from?  Have you maybe overriden `${libdir}'
in your `config.site' file?

The failure here is being caused by the fact that the libraries are apparently
being installed in ${prefix}/lib64 rather than in ${prefix}/lib.  This could
be solved by passing a proper `--libdir' switch to the configure invocation;
see attached patch.

> [SNIP]
>
> FAIL: pr300-ltlib.test (exit: 1)
> ================================
> 
> pr300-ltlib: running libtoolize --version
> libtoolize (GNU libtool) 2.4
> Written by Gary V. Vaughan <address@hidden>, 2003
> 
> Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
> warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
> pr300-ltlib: running gcc --version
> gcc (SUSE Linux) 4.6.2
> Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
> warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
> 
> === Running test ./pr300-ltlib.test
> ++ pwd
> /home/bruno/data/build/automake-1.11.2/tests/pr300-ltlib.dir
>
> [SNIP]
>
> /bin/sh ./libtool --tag=CC --mode=link gcc -g -O2 -o subdir/liba.la \
>         -rpath /home/.../pr300-ltlib.dir/inst/lib64 a.lo
>
Again that `lib64' ...

[SNIP]
> + grep 'liba.la .*-rpath .*lib/subdir' stdout
> + exit_status=1
>
... which is causing this spurious failure.  The fix is the same as for
`pr300-lib.test' (again, see attached patch).

Bruno, could you please try the patch to see if it solves your problem?

Thanks,
  Stefano

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