Hi Peter - thanks for trying the automake pretest.
I get one failure (t/nodef)
I suspect a timing problem, since I can't fathom any reason why that
particular test would fail on your system specifically. (The test
basically just runs a minimal automake twice.)
with autoconf 2.71.
Indeed, since you're not using the development autoconf :),
automake should be falling back to a 1-second delay at various points,
but apparently isn't. I'll have to investigate further.
Please let me know if I can help.
Could you try running the test on its own?
make VERBOSE=1 check TESTS=t/nodef.sh keep_testdirs=yes
I rather suspect it will succeed. --thanks again, karl.