Re: [bug-gawk] make check fails, argarray.in and argarray.in are the same file

[Stewart, Adam James]

Andy,

Yes, the patch does solve the problem I'm seeing.

I figured out how to reproduce the problem. If I run ./configure, make check 
passes with flying colors. If I run /absolute/path/to/configure where the 
directory containing configure is actually a symlink, things fail. If I build 
in a different directory, things work as well. We've noticed this problem with 
a lot of Autotools packages in our package manager.

Adam J. Stewart
Assistant Systems Administrator
Laboratory Computing Resource Center
Computing, Environment and Life Sciences
Argonne National Laboratory

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From: Andrew J. Schorr address@hidden
Sent: Friday, March 17, 2017 4:46 PM
To: Stewart, Adam James
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: [bug-gawk] make check fails, argarray.in and argarray.in are the 
same file

On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 05:41:26PM -0400, Andrew J. Schorr wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 07:17:04PM +0000, Stewart, Adam James wrote:
> > ======== Starting basic tests ========
> > addcomma
> > anchgsub
> > argarray
> > cp: 
> > `/blues/gpfs/home/ajstewart/spack/var/spack/stage/gawk-4.1.4-m2k72owgdfinzlow4zngvpasowl6dpck/gawk-4.1.4/test/argarray.in'
> >  and `./argarray.in' are the same file
> > make[1]: *** [argarray] Error 1
> > make[1]: Leaving directory 
> > `/scratch/ajstewart/spack-stage/spack-stage-4PNvBA/gawk-4.1.4/test'
> > make: *** [check-recursive] Error 1

Does the attached patch fix your problem?

Regards,
Andy