On 03/02/2012 08:53 AM, Paul Eggert wrote:
The symptoms are:
$ cd tests; make check TESTSUITEFLAGS=75
make check-local
/bin/bash ./testsuite 75
## -- ##
## GNU Autoconf 2.68b test suite. ##
## -- ##
75: Configure re-execs self
Hi Paul, Eric.
Paul Eggert wrote:
Solaris 8 ships with Perl 5.005_03. This satisfies Autoconf 'configure',
which requires only 5.005_03 or better. But
lib/Autom4te/Getopt.pm and lib/Autom4te/General.pm
require 5.006_002.
As I can test with at most with perl 5.6.2 (and no older versions),
Hi Eric.
On 03/02/2012 04:08 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
On 03/02/2012 07:15 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
Also, note that the workaround removed in c3797b86ccbd9 was severely
broken to begin with (that is explained in the commit message);
re-introducing it only to make autoconf buildable out-of-the
On 03/02/2012 07:08 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
Paul, would it be okay if for autoconf we
borrow the same configure check as automake is using, and globally bump
the requirement to be consistent across the autotools?
Sure. If I understand things correctly, that means
'configure' will complain that
On Thu, 1 Mar 2012, Eric Blake wrote:
The GNU Autoconf team is pleased to announce the beta release of
Autoconf 2.68b. Autoconf is an extensible package of M4 macros that
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On my UnixWare 7.1.4 box, the tests get stuck on
75: Configure re-execs self with CONFIG_SHELL
Here are the
