testsuite failures when test scripts are run with zsh

2009-08-25 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Hi everybody. I forced the automake testsuite to run tests in parallel using the *Zsh* shell, with the following command: $ make -j5 TEST_LOG_COMPILER='zsh --nofunctionargzero' check The following failures turned up: FAIL: aclocal8.test (exit: 1) FAIL: acsilent.test (exit: 1) FAIL: depcomp2.te

Re: (maybe) zsh-related bug in tests/defs.in

2009-08-25 Thread Stefano Lattarini
At Tuesday 25 August 2009, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 02:18:45AM CEST: > > If you want to err on the side of safety, you could add a warning > > in tests/README stating not to use zsh to run the test scripts, > > unless it's symlinked to /bin/sh or