On 2012-07-12 10:51, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > Hi Peter. > > On 07/11/2012 11:21 PM, Peter Rosin wrote: >> On 2012-07-11 14:44, Stefano Lattarini wrote: >>> On 07/09/2012 07:04 PM, Max Horn wrote: >>> >>>> I am currently looking into packaging automake 1.12.1 for >>>> Fink <http://www.finkproject.org/> on Mac OS X 10.7. >>>> Doing that, several test suite failures popped up, which >>>> I am now working through to resolve. >>>> >>> In the meantime, could you please post the 'test-suite.log' file, >>> for reference? Thanks. >>> >>>> The first one is t/silentcxx-gcc.sh failing. >>>> Note that t/silentcxx.sh incorrectly (!) succeeds. >>>> >>>> There are two problems here: >>>> >>>> 1) The C++ compiler from Sun Studio is named "CC". This caused >>>> t/silentcxx.sh to fail, which was fixed with commit ad5d0be02d >>>> in the autonconf >>>> >>> s/autoconf/automake/ I guess. >>> >>> BTW, the problem you are reporting is similar to the one reported >>> in bug#10766 by Peter Rosin (which I'm thus CC:ing): >>> <http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=10766> >>> >>>> git repository. The same fix also needs to be applied to >>>> t/silentcxx-gcc.sh. >>>> >>> See if the attached patch solves the issue for you. Ideally, it >>> should also fix bug#10766; Peter, could you give it a try? >> >> Hi Stefano! >> >> I updated for the first time in a long time but stumbled on the >> autoconf 2.69 requirement, >> > Since that requirement is only needed for bootstrapping, I could send > you a (patched) tarball to test (so that you'll only require an > autoconf >= 2.62). Would that be more acceptable?
Shoot! >> it's not available as a package for >> Cygwin yet. I don't feel like rolling my own autoconf. So, no, >> I will not test this one until 2.69 is readily available. Sorry. >> >> So, reading the patch instead, I think the method for querying case >> insensitivity seems a bit fragile >> > Agreed (albeit it does its dirty work for now). Any suggestion on > how to make it more reliable? Is test /usr/bin/CC -ef /usr/bin/cc portable enough? Does it work at all? Just an idea... Cheers, Peter