That's strange, although I tested it on top of automake-1.16.5, I don't have any failure on `make check` with this one here [1].
May you provide more details ? [1] ============================================================================ Testsuite summary for GNU Automake 1.16.5 ============================================================================ # TOTAL: 2980 # PASS: 2882 # SKIP: 60 # XFAIL: 38 # FAIL: 0 # XPASS: 0 # ERROR: 0 ============================================================================ On Fri, Jan 13, 2023 at 7:48 AM Mike Frysinger <vap...@gentoo.org> wrote: > this breaks `make check`, so i can't merge it > -mike > >