Re: automake-1.7.3: single test failure on NetBSD 1.6, and autoconf-2.57

[Nelson H. F. Beebe]

Thanks very much for the explanation of the prefix setting problem in
configure on NetBSD that resulted in a test failure for
automake-1.7.3.  I can indeed confirm your suspicion:

        % uname -a
        NetBSD netbsd.vm.math.utah.edu 1.6 NetBSD 1.6 (GENERIC) #0:
        Sun Sep 8 19:43:40 UTC 2002
        
address@hidden:/autobuild/i386/OBJ/autobuild/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
        i386 i386 Intel Pentium III (Katmai) (686-class) NetBSD

        % echo $prefix
        /usr/local

        % env TESTS=man2.test make check -e
        ...

        % grep '^prefix' testSubDir/config.log
        prefix=''

The automake-1.7.3 script was generated by autoconf-2.57.

I've noticed similar problems in builds of several other packages on
systems where I have prefix set to something other than /usr/local:
I still get

        prefix=/usr/local

in the Makefile, instead of the correct value from the environment.
However, until now, I'd not correlated this with the autoconf
version.  I'll have to check that in the future.

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