Re: automake-1.7.1: 8 tests FAILED

[Chris Rankin]

>  Chris> WTF???? These tests are working now! Admittedly, I originally saw
>  Chris> these errors using libtool 1.4.1 but I then upgraded to 1.4.3 and the
>  Chris> tests *still* failed! I am confused... Could libtool 1.4.1 have been
>  Chris> lingering on my system somehow, even after I had upgraded?
> 
> It could also be a hardware issue.  My box used to segfault
> randomly under heavy load (and produce transiant failures in
> Automake's test suite); I've lived with this for more than one
> year until I noticed the processor fan wasn't working :)

No, the box is solid - I'm sure of that. It's either something to do
with my libtool upgrade, or maybe it was fixed when I cleaned out the
residual autoconf-2.13 m4 scripts from /usr/share/autoconf. I'm sure I
didn't add anything, so it must be to do with some garbage I cleaned
away.

Chris