Hello Jeph, Thanks for the report.
* Jeph Cowan wrote on Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 06:33:13PM CEST: > > Attached is the testsuite.log file with more info on the failed tests. The failure of test 3 is due to a bug in Autoconf's test suite; it can safely be ignored. The failures of the AC_F77_WRAPPERS and AC_FC_WRAPPERS tests look like an installation problem with either GCC or the assembler on your system, all compilation tests fail: > configure:2858: checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler > configure:2895: gcc -c conftest.c >&5 > Assembler: > /tmp//cchBVANa.s: line 9: Only .llong should be used for relocatable > expressions. > configure:2901: $? = 1 > configure: failed program was: > | /* confdefs.h. */ > | #define PACKAGE_NAME "" > | #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "" > | #define PACKAGE_VERSION "" > | #define PACKAGE_STRING "" > | #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT "" > | /* end confdefs.h. */ > | > | #ifdef F77_DUMMY_MAIN > | > | # ifdef __cplusplus > | extern "C" > | # endif > | int F77_DUMMY_MAIN() { return 1; } > | > | #endif > | int > | main () > | { > | #ifndef __GNUC__ > | choke me > | #endif > | > | ; > | return 0; > | } > configure:2935: result: no Once you figure out how to fix that, those tests should pass. > Also > note that the 'make check' was started at 8:28AM and finished the following > morning at 00:46, some 16+ hours later. Am I doing something wrong? No. The native AIX shell really is so much slower than a decent shell when handling large and complex shell scripts. It helps _a lot_ to use bash on AIX. I think you can do that by configuring packages this way, assuming bash is installed as /bin/bash: CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/bash /bin/bash ./configure CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/bash > The > same check ran in about 20 minutes on one of our linux systems. Are there > serious repercussions due to the failed tests so that I shouldn't install > the software? No, except maybe that Autoconf should find and a better shell by itself. It's not so easy however to efficiently test for "is this shell agonizingly slow" in a configure script. You can install Autoconf and use it as you like. Cheers, Ralf