Re: automake-1.7.4: 7 tests failed on NetBSD/sparc-1.5

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

I'm installing this old patch on HEAD and branch-1-7 as follows.

2003-10-03  Richard Dawe  <address@hidden>  (tiny change)

        * tests/defs.in: For required=runtest, check that we are using
        a DejaGnu that supports specifying the program on the command-line.

Index: tests/defs.in
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/automake/automake/tests/defs.in,v
retrieving revision 1.4.2.11
diff -u -r1.4.2.11 defs.in
--- tests/defs.in       6 Sep 2003 05:40:17 -0000       1.4.2.11
+++ tests/defs.in       3 Oct 2003 20:16:20 -0000
@@ -142,9 +142,11 @@
        test $create_status = 0 && exit 77
        ;;
       runtest)
-       # DejaGnu's runtest program.
+       # DejaGnu's runtest program. We rely on being able to specify
+       # the program on the runtest command-line. This requires
+       # DejaGnu 1.4.3 or later.
        echo "$me: running runtest --version"
-       (runtest --version) || exit 77
+       (runtest SOMEPROGRAM=someprogram --version) || exit 77
        ;;
       tex)
         # No all versions of Tex support `--version', so we use

-- 
Alexandre Duret-Lutz