Re: [PATCH] port elisp-compilation support to emacs-23.1 and newer

[Jim Meyering]

On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 12:17 PM, Glenn Morris  wrote:
> The obsolete bytecomp feature is back as of Emacs 9964db4.

Thanks, I noticed when that was restored, but have been a way for a while.

> BTW, why doesn't lisp.am use the standard "-f batch-byte-compile"
> method of producing .elc files?
>
> Your two issues that affected only automake illustrate that the way
> automake generates .elc files is different to the vast majority of
> Emacs projects.

Thanks for the suggestion, Glenn. However, I don't see how "-f
batch-byte-compile" can be used when the .elc file must be created in
a directory separate from the one containing the .el file. I think
automake generates code the way it does because GNU coding standards
mandate that one be able to build from a read-only hierarchy of
sources (think read-only media).

bug#29638: Same five tests fail with 1.15 on RHEL 7.4

[Dennis Clarke]

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 1
gmake[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 2
gmake[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.sh

The 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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