tags 12836 - moreinfo tags 12836 + notabug close 12836 On 11/15/2012 05:33 PM, Tru Huynh wrote: > On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 05:24:56PM +0100, Stefano Lattarini wrote: >> Hi Tru, sorry for the further delay. >> > no problem :) >> >>> FAIL: t/lex-header >>> ================== >>> >>> lex-header: running flex --version >>> flex version 2.5.4 >>> >> Yikes! According to what I see in <http://flex.sourceforge.net/>, this >> flex version is fifteen years old! The failure here is due to the fact >> that we are assuming a flex feature (support for the "--header-file" >> option) that is not present in such an old version. So we can consider >> this a spurious error; and the fact that all the other test cases on lex >> support have passed shows that Automake-generated rules can actually >> work very well even with such an old flex version. >> >> (and BTW, I'd reeally suggest you to update your flex installation ;-) > That's the default flex version on CentOS-5/Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. > [tru@sillage ~]$ rpm -q flex > flex-2.5.4a-41.fc6.x86_64 > > I will install another flex version next time :). > >> >>> FAIL: t/help2 >>> ============== >>> >>> + aclocal-1.12 >>> + cat stderr >>> NONE:0: /usr/bin/m4: ERROR: end of file in string >>> autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1 >>> aclocal-1.12: error: autom4te failed with exit status: 1 >>> + /bin/grep -F acinclude.m4 stderr >>> + am_exit_trap 1 >>> + exit_status=1 >>> >> This too sounds like a spurious error, in that the error message we >> expected from this particular aclocal invocation is there, but it's >> not as "precise" as we'd like it to be. Not a big deal, and not >> really aclocal's fault, since the error message comes from GNU m4. >> May I ask you which m4 version re you using? That is unfortunately >> not registered in config.log ... >> > /usr/bin/m4 is the CentOS-5 default version. > [tru@sillage ~]$ rpm -qf /usr/bin/m4 > m4-1.4.5-3.el5.1.x86_64 > > Another oldy too :D > Yep :-)
> Thanks for you help, > Thanks for the details. I can now proceed to close this bug report. Best regards, Stefano