Re: [m4-1.4.11] build feedback

[Bruno Haible]

Hi Eric,

Eric Blake wrote:
> The failures are all in gnulib portability code,
> and don't appear to immediately impact m4 behavior (the gnulib
> replacements are more general than what m4 uses them for).  Meanwhile, can
> you please rerun with 'make -k' to get the full set of failures?

You would not need to write this stereotypic reply if the main tests were
run before the gnulib ones:

--- Makefile.am.bak     2008-04-02 05:48:32.000000000 +0200
+++ Makefile.am 2008-04-04 06:12:39.000000000 +0200
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 ##
 ## Written by Gary V. Vaughan <address@hidden>
 
-SUBDIRS = . examples lib src doc tests checks
+SUBDIRS = . examples lib src doc checks tests
 EXTRA_DIST = bootstrap c-boxes.el cfg.mk maint.mk \
        .version m4/gnulib-cache.m4
 DISTCLEANFILES = stamp-h

Bruno