The same five tests fail for automake 1.15 and 1.15.1 on RHEL 7.4. Also the testsuite itself reports mysterious "Error 1" and "Error 2" upon termination and that looks questionable :
============================================================================ Testsuite summary for GNU Automake 1.15 ============================================================================ # TOTAL: 2693 # PASS: 2422 # SKIP: 226 # XFAIL: 40 # FAIL: 5 # XPASS: 0 # ERROR: 0 ============================================================================ See ./test-suite.log Please report to bug-automake@gnu.org ============================================================================ gmake[2]: *** [Makefile:3027: test-suite.log] Error 1gmake[2]: Leaving directory '/usr/local/build/automake-1.15_3.10.0-693.11.1.el7.x86_64.001'
gmake[1]: *** [Makefile:3135: check-TESTS] Error 2gmake[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/local/build/automake-1.15_3.10.0-693.11.1.el7.x86_64.001'
gmake: *** [Makefile:3366: check-am] Error 2 admsys@sedna$ The five failed tests are : FAIL: t/aclocal.sh FAIL: t/automake-cmdline.tap 4 - list of options terminated by '--' (stderr) FAIL: t/automake-cmdline.tap 17 - unambiguous incomplete long option FAIL: t/maken3.sh FAIL: t/maken3-w.shThe test suite log is attached as test-suite_gnu_automake_1.15_rhel7.4_kern_3.10.0-693.11.1.el7.x86_64.log.xz
Dennis Clarke
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