Re: bug#8168: macros directory not created automatically

On Monday 14 March 2011, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > [dropping automake list, adding automake-patches] > > References: > > > > -*-*- > > Hello Javier and a

Re: aclocal only picking up /usr/local/share and not /usr/share

On Thursday 17 March 2011, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > > On Thursday 17 March 2011, Maynard Johnson wrote: > > Hello, > > I have installed a version of aclocal into /usr/local that's newer > > than my distro's version (I needed a fix from the newer version). > > But then I ran into a problem recent

Re: bug#7873: Automake should support adding to DejaGnu site.exp

Reference: Hello Rainer and all automakers. On Tuesday 01 February 2011, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > On Thursday 20 January 2011, Rainer Orth wrote: > > Currently, Automake doesn't support adding package-specific content

Re: [PATCH] {maint} tests: new subroutines for test skipping/failing

On Monday 14 March 2011, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > Hello Ralf and all automakers. > > Reference: > > Whole original thread: > > which stemmed fro

Re: [PATCH] {maint} Warnings about primary/prefix mismatch fixed and extended.

References: Ping^2? I will push in 72 hours if there are no objections. Regards, Stefano

[PATCH] {maint} tests: improve tests on "maintainer-clean" target

Hello automakers. While looking at the test aclocal6.test (during the attemp of tackling ) I noticed this comment: # Make sure maintainer-clean works in VPATH builds. # (This is unrelated to the rest of this test.) Having two very unrelated ch

Re: bug#8365: 3 of 657 tests failed

Reference: Hi Sam, and thanks for the report. > FAIL: aclocal6.test (exit: 1) > = > > /home/sds/src/automake-1.11.1/tests:/home/sds/src/top/bin:/usr/lib6 > 4/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bi

Re: bug#8365: 3 of 657 tests failed

And the diagnosis for the failure of subdir5.test seems very similar. (In fact, it would have been much simpler to start by analyzing this failure, since it is a much simplified version of the aclocal6.test failure; but shame on me, I just proceded in alphabetical order w.r.t. the test names!) Wh

Re: bug#8365: 3 of 657 tests failed

Hi Stefano, * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 06:47:20PM CEST: > --- a/tests/aclocal6.test > +++ b/tests/aclocal6.test > @@ -57,6 +57,8 @@ cd build > ../configure > $MAKE > > +# Modified configure dependencies must be newer than config.status. > +$sleep > # Update an aclocal.

Re: bug#8365: 3 of 657 tests failed

* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 06:59:07PM CEST: > * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 06:47:20PM CEST: > > --- a/tests/subdir5.test > > +++ b/tests/subdir5.test > > > @@ -67,6 +67,8 @@ $MAKE > > # does it in the other way: it updates confiles.m4 (which is m4_include

Re: bug#8365: 3 of 657 tests failed

On Wednesday 30 March 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Hi Stefano, > > * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 06:47:20PM CEST: > > --- a/tests/aclocal6.test > > +++ b/tests/aclocal6.test > > > @@ -57,6 +57,8 @@ cd build > > ../configure > > $MAKE > > > > +# Modified configure depende

Re: bug#8365: 3 of 657 tests failed

> * Stefano Lattarini [2011-03-30 18:10:23 +0200]: > > Reference: > > > Hi Sam, and thanks for the report. you are welcome. > Sam, have you by chance kept the content of the *.dir directories for > the failed tests? If yes, could you please

Re: [PATCH] {maint} tests: improve tests on "maintainer-clean" target

* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 05:47:44PM CEST: > So I've seized this opportunity to do some minor refactoring and extending in > the tests for the "maintainer-clean" target. The resulting simple patch (for > maint) is attached. A quick "grep maintainer-clean *.test" should sh

Re: bug#8365: 3 of 657 tests failed

* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 06:10:23PM CEST: > Now, why is configure not re-run? Here is my (longish) tentative explanation, > step by step. In what follows, I'll use the abbraviation `TS(f)' to indicate > the timestamp (i.e. last modification time) of the file `f'. > > 01.