Results for automake 1.7d (Was: Re: Results for Automake 1.7.9 on sparc-solaris: 4 failures)

[Dalibor Topic]

Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
> > > > "Dalibor" == Dalibor Topic <address@hidden> writes:
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>  Dalibor> Hi all,
>  Dalibor> continuing my automake test series, I have tried automake 1.7.9 on
>  Dalibor> sparc-solaris 9. Below are the make check results:
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>  Dalibor> gmake  check-TESTS
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> Could you try Solaris Make instead?  Automake is expected to
> produce portable Makefiles, so it's nice to try various
> Make implementations.

I've retried 1.7d with the Solaris make and it fails in the same way.

> [...]
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>  Dalibor> those seem to come from tcl errors.
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> My impression is that DejaGNU is misinstalled, but I'm not a
> DejaGNU user and unfortunately Tcl is Chinese to me.

I guess the tcl version is too old. The interestiong question is: is 
that a problem in automake or in dejagnu? ;)

I.e. if it's some tcl code automake generates, then the code may need to 
be rewritten without the offending keyword, or the automake configure 
script should check for a too old tcl. Otherwise, the tests should be 
skipped if a tcl version is detected that fails to parse the offending 
keyword.

Unfortunately, I don't speak Tcl myself, so I doubt I can be of much 
assistance hacking the Tcl code in automake, if there is any ;) But I'll 
be glad to test your patches.

cheers,
dalibor topic