bug#11093: [platform-testers] Automake 1.11.3b test release

[Stefano Lattarini]

Hi Bruno, thanks for the report.

On 03/26/2012 02:06 AM, Bruno Haible wrote:
>> Testing with Cygwin, MSYS/MinGW, MacOS X, and proprietary UNIX systems
>> (e.g., AIX, IRIX, older Solaris) would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> On MacOS X 10.5: All tests passed.
>
Good! :-)

> On Linux (openSUSE 12.1):
> 
> FAIL: conffile-leading-dot.test
>
This is likely due to some know racy spurious failures already fixed on master
but (for some reasons) not on maint.  The attached "backporting" patches should
take care of the issue.  Can you confirm they works?

> FAIL: vala-vpath.test
> FAIL: vala-mix.test
> FAIL: vala-mix2.test

> [SNIP]

> rm -f ../foo_vala.stamp && echo stamp > ../foo_vala.stamp-t
> CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd .. && /arch/x86_64-linux/gnu/bin/valac 
> --profile=posix  -C hello.vala
> Unknown option --profile=posix
> Run '/arch/x86_64-linux/gnu/bin/valac --help' to see a full list of available 
> command line options.
> make: *** [../foo_vala.stamp] Error 1
> + exit_status=2
> + set +e
> + cd 
> /data/home-susekde4/bruno/data/build/multibuild-1986/linux/automake-1.11.3b/tests
> + case $exit_status,$keep_testdirs in
> + test 0 '!=' 0
> + echo 'vala-vpath: exit 2'
> vala-vpath: exit 2
> + exit 2
> 
> The reason is that the 'valac' program that I have in my $PATH is version
> 0.7, and it does not support the --profile option:
> 
> $ valac --version
> Vala 0.7.2
> 
> Looking at git://git.gnome.org/vala it is clear that the option --profile
> was added on 2009-05-08, in version 0.7.3. The autoconf test reported
> "checking /arch/x86_64-linux/gnu/bin/valac is at least version 0.7... yes"
> which is correct. But it should have tested for at least version 0.7.3.
>
Thanks for the analysis.  I've added you as the main author of the patch to
fix this bug (attached).  Can you confirm that it works, and give your ACK
to the authorship attribution?

Thanks,
  Stefano

0001-tests-fix-spurious-failure-with-older-autoconf.patch
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0002-tests-fix-a-timestamp-issue-and-other-minor-buglets.patch
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vala-tests-fix-spurious-failures-with-older-valac.patch
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