Re: automake-1.7.3 on HP Itanium-2: verbose logs for seven test failures (Was: Re: automake-1.7.3: single test failure on NetBSD 1.6)

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

>>> "Nelson" == Nelson H F Beebe <address@hidden> writes:

[...]

 Nelson> Attached below is a typescript of the seven test failures for the 
 Nelson> automake-1.7.3 build on  

 Nelson> Intel Itanium 2 (2CPUs, 1GHz, 8GB RAM, 36GB disk)
 Nelson> GNU/Linux 2.4.18-e.12smp [Red Hat Linux Advanced Server release 2.1AS 
(Derry)]

 Nelson> FAIL: destdir.test
 Nelson> FAIL: dollar.test
 Nelson> FAIL: gnits2.test
 Nelson> FAIL: man2.test
 Nelson> FAIL: pr300-lib.test
 Nelson> FAIL: pr300-prog.test
 Nelson> FAIL: transform.test

Thanks!

AFAICT all these tests fail because configure's --prefix
argument is ignored and files end up being installed under
/home/beebe/ia64/local/ instead of inside the scratch directory
created by the tests case.

I suspect you have hardcoded $prefix in
/home/beebe/.autoconf.config.site.  Is that true?  The way to
override the *default* $prefix while still honoring the --prefix
argument is

     test "$prefix" = NONE && prefix=/usr/share/local/gnu

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Alexandre Duret-Lutz