Re: psppire distcheck failure

[Ben Pfaff]

John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 08:28:29PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>      John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:
>      
>      > I haven't been able to run make distcheck for a while, because of the
>      > test failure in tests/expressions/randist.sh
>      
>      I added a patch on savannah with a proposed fix.  Can you see if
>      it works for you now?
>
> Made it worse, I'm afraid.  
>
> Attached it the output I get for that test with the patch applied.

It sure looks like you didn't apply the patch, because the
patched version doesn't run diff:

--- randist.sh  11 Mar 2006 07:16:40 -0000      1.7
+++ randist.sh  30 Jun 2006 03:24:33 -0000
@@ -67,8 +67,8 @@ if [ $? -ne 0 ] ; then fail ; fi
 for d in beta cauchy chisq exp f gamma laplace logistic lnormal \
         normal pareto t uniform weibull; do
     activity="compare output for $d distribution"
-    perl -pi -e 's/^\s*$//g' $top_srcdir/tests/expressions/randist/$d.out $TEMP
DIR/$d.out
-    diff -b $top_srcdir/tests/expressions/randist/$d.out $TEMPDIR/$d.out
+    perl $top_srcdir/tests/expressions/randist/compare.pl \
+       $top_srcdir/tests/expressions/randist/$d.out $TEMPDIR/$d.out
     if [ $? -ne 0 ] ; then fail ; fi
 done
 
You have to both extract the tarball *and* apply the patch.
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