Re: Failed testcases for automake-1.6 on sparc-linux

[Niels Möller]

Just one more note. I have now installed automake-1.6 on my work
machine as well, an x86 pc running some redhatish flavour of
linux-2.2.19. Two of the testcases failed here too: pr300-lib.test,
pr300-prog.test.

/Niels

I wrote:

> I just installed automake-1.6 on my sparc station running linux-2.2.19
> and stable debian. I'm also running autoconf-2.52 (I'm upgrading to
> 2.53, but right now I'm waiting for its testsuite to complete, so it's
> not installed yet).
> 
> I ran make check, which took an *awful* lot of time on this machine.
> Four testcases failed, namely:
> 
>   cond5.test, pr211.test, pr300-lib.test, pr300-prog.test.
> 
> The first seems to test for a hanging automake by waiting 15 seconds,
> so that *might* be just my machine that is too slow. But the other
> three tests that failed don't have any timing issues as far as I can
> see.
> 
> Anything I can do to help you track down the bugs? I'm not familiar
> with automake internals, nor with perl.
> 
> Best regards,
> /Niels