Re: [GNU Autoconf 2.60] testsuite: 131 134 135 137 190 198 failed

[Paul Eggert]

Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> writes:

> Well, this seems to me that the mechanism did not work with the file
>   #! /bin/cat
>   exit 69
>
> (was that due to some "hardened system" such as SELinux by the way, with
> the `No such file or directory' the result of a missing clearing of
> errno, or is this indeed a system that does not have /bin/cat?)

My money would be on a missing "/bin/cat".

> Consequently, I guess the test should have failed, no?

If "/bin/cat" is missing and the kernel causes the script to fail
because of this, then the "#!" mechanism is indeed working, so the
test should pass.  Most likely a "hardened system" would also be
working too (unless it disabled "#!/bin/sh", which would be hard to
believe -- but in that case we'll need to see the system before we can
port Autoconf to it).