[debbugs-tracker] bug#9807: closed (libtool is not found by the automake testsuite)

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and subject line Re: bug#9807: [PATCH] {maint} tests: better handling of 
gettext and libtool requirements
has caused the debbugs.gnu.org bug report #9807,
regarding libtool is not found by the automake testsuite
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> libtool is not found by the automake testsuite
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> Thu, 20 Oct 2011 14:42:53 +0200
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> Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64;	rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20110929 Thunderbird/7.0.1
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> Hi!
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> When I do a simple ./configure, make, make check, Automake will
> not run tests related to Libtool, because there is no Libtool
> installed in the prefix this Automake is destined for (i.e.
> /usr/local/).
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> Is it really expected that users should have to install Libtool
> in the prefix before the Automake testsuite will run the Libtool
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> >From looking at the code, I suspect gettext is also suffering.
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> I do understand that there is a desire to keep undesired macros
> out of the way, but the price seems a bit high...
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> Cheers,
> Peter
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> Re: bug#9807: [PATCH] {maint} tests: better handling of gettext and	libtool requirements
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> On 12/14/2011 02:06 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> > This change fixes automake bug#9807.
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> I've squashed in the fixlet below, tested the patch on NetBSD 5.1 for good
> measure (the libtool tests that were by default being skipped there started
> to run and pass, yay!), and pushed to maint.
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> I'm thus closing this bug report.
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> Thanks,
>   Stefano
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>   diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
>   index 4d951a0..77afab4 100644
>   --- a/ChangeLog
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>   @@ -68,6 +68,7 @@
>           * tests/Makefile.am: Declare dependency of all the logs of libtool
>           tests from `libtool-macros.log', and all the logs of gettext tests
>           from `gettext-macros.log'.
>   +       (TESTS): Add the new tests.
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>    2011-12-22  Stefano Lattarini  <address@hidden>
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>   diff --git a/tests/Makefile.am b/tests/Makefile.am
>   index 266db46..b2a61ec 100644
>   --- a/tests/Makefile.am
>   +++ b/tests/Makefile.am
>   @@ -924,6 +924,8 @@ yaccvpath.test \
>    yacc-dist-nobuild-subdir.test \
>    yflags.test \
>    yflags2.test \
>   +libtool-macros.test \
>   +gettext-macros.test \
>    $(parallel_tests)
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>    # FIXME: make these automatically computed once we are merged into
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