automake-1.8 fails on AIX

[David Favor]

Something is amiss with aclocal. Updated make, m4 and autoconf.
All tests for these ran successfully.

Suggestions?

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>automake --version
automake (GNU automake) 1.7.9
Written by Tom Tromey <address@hidden>.

Copyright 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

>env VERBOSE=x TESTS=aclocal4.test make -e check
make  defs aclocal-1.8 automake-1.8
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/core/build/automake-1.8/tests'
make[1]: `defs' is up to date.
make[1]: `aclocal-1.8' is up to date.
make[1]: `automake-1.8' is up to date.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/core/build/automake-1.8/tests'
make  check-TESTS
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/core/build/automake-1.8/tests'
/usr/local/core/build/automake-1.8/tests:.:/home/dfavor/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/etc:/usr/sbin:/usr/ucb:/usr/dt/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/sbin:/usr/afs/bin:/usr/java130/jre/bin:/usr/java130/bin:/usr/vac/bin:/usr/vacpp/bin:/usr/local/gcc-3.3.2/bin:/home/dfavor/binibm:/usr/gsa/bin:/usr/contrib/bin:/usr/prod/bin:/afs/austin/local/bin:/.../austin.ibm.com/fs/projects/service/usr/bin/retain:/usr/tctools:/home/dfavor/local-retain
aclocal4: running make --version -v
GNU Make 3.80
Copyright (C) 2002  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
=== Running test ./aclocal4.test
+ pwd
/usr/local/core/build/automake-1.8/tests/testSubDir
+ set -e
+ cat
+ 1>> configure.in 0< /tmp/sh20922.3
+ mkdir m4
+ cat
+ 1> m4/mymacro.m4 0< /tmp/sh20922.5
+ mkdir lib
+ :
+ 1> lib/foo.c
+ :
+ 1> lib/bar.c
+ cat
+ 1> lib/Makefile.am 0< /tmp/sh20922.7
+ cat
+ 1> Makefile.am 0< /tmp/sh20922.9
+ aclocal-1.8 -I m4
+ /bin/sh /usr/local/core/build/automake-1.8/lib/missing --run autoconf
+ automake-1.8 --foreign -Werror -Wall
+ ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... ./install-sh -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating lib/Makefile
config.status: executing depfiles commands
+ make check-not-foo
{ test ! -d aclocal4-1.0 || { find aclocal4-1.0 -type d ! -perm -200 -exec chmod u+w {} ';' && rm 
-fr aclocal4-1.0; }; }
mkdir aclocal4-1.0
mkdir -m 0755 -p -- aclocal4-1.0/m4
list='lib'; for subdir in $list; do \
  if test "$subdir" = .; then :; else \
    test -d "aclocal4-1.0/$subdir" \
    || mkdir "aclocal4-1.0/$subdir" \
    || exit 1; \
    (cd $subdir && \
      make  \
        top_distdir="../aclocal4-1.0" \
        distdir="../aclocal4-1.0/$subdir" \
        distdir) \
      || exit 1; \
  fi; \
done
/usr/local/core/build/automake-1.8/tests/testSubDir/lib
make[1]: Entering directory 
`/usr/local/core/build/automake-1.8/tests/testSubDir/lib'
make[1]: Leaving directory 
`/usr/local/core/build/automake-1.8/tests/testSubDir/lib'
find aclocal4-1.0 -type d ! -perm -777 -exec chmod a+rwx {} \; -o \
  ! -type d ! -perm -444 -links 1 -exec chmod a+r {} \; -o \
  ! -type d ! -perm -400 -exec chmod a+r {} \; -o \
  ! -type d ! -perm -444 -exec /bin/sh 
/usr/local/core/build/automake-1.8/tests/testSubDir/install-sh -c -m a+r {} {} \; \
|| chmod -R a+r aclocal4-1.0
test ! -f aclocal4-1.0/lib/foo.c
test -f aclocal4-1.0/lib/bar.c
+ cat
+ 1> m4/mymacro.m4 0< /tmp/sh20922.11
+ make check-foo
cd . && /bin/sh /usr/local/core/build/automake-1.8/tests/testSubDir/missing 
--run aclocal-1.8 -I m4
/usr/local/core/build/automake-1.8/tests/testSubDir/missing[52]: aclocal-1.8:  
not found.
WARNING: `aclocal-1.8' is missing on your system.  You should only need it if
         you modified `acinclude.m4' or `configure.in'.  You might want
         to install the `Automake' and `Perl' packages.  Grab them from
         any GNU archive site.
 cd . && /bin/sh /usr/local/core/build/automake-1.8/tests/testSubDir/missing --run automake-1.8 
--foreign
/usr/local/core/build/automake-1.8/tests/testSubDir/missing[52]: automake-1.8:  
not found.
WARNING: `automake-1.8' is missing on your system.  You should only need it if
         you modified `Makefile.am', `acinclude.m4' or `configure.in'.
         You might want to install the `Automake' and `Perl' packages.
         Grab them from any GNU archive site.
cd . && /bin/sh /usr/local/core/build/automake-1.8/tests/testSubDir/missing 
--run autoconf
/bin/sh ./config.status --recheck
running /bin/sh ./configure   --no-create --no-recursion
checking for a BSD-compatible install... ./install-sh -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
configure: creating ./config.status
 /bin/sh ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating lib/Makefile
config.status: executing depfiles commands
{ test ! -d aclocal4-1.0 || { find aclocal4-1.0 -type d ! -perm -200 -exec chmod u+w {} ';' && rm 
-fr aclocal4-1.0; }; }
mkdir aclocal4-1.0
mkdir -m 0755 -p -- aclocal4-1.0/m4
list='lib'; for subdir in $list; do \
  if test "$subdir" = .; then :; else \
    test -d "aclocal4-1.0/$subdir" \
    || mkdir "aclocal4-1.0/$subdir" \
    || exit 1; \
    (cd $subdir && \
      make  \
        top_distdir="../aclocal4-1.0" \
        distdir="../aclocal4-1.0/$subdir" \
        distdir) \
      || exit 1; \
  fi; \
done
/usr/local/core/build/automake-1.8/tests/testSubDir/lib
make[1]: Entering directory 
`/usr/local/core/build/automake-1.8/tests/testSubDir/lib'
make[1]: Leaving directory 
`/usr/local/core/build/automake-1.8/tests/testSubDir/lib'
find aclocal4-1.0 -type d ! -perm -777 -exec chmod a+rwx {} \; -o \
  ! -type d ! -perm -444 -links 1 -exec chmod a+r {} \; -o \
  ! -type d ! -perm -400 -exec chmod a+r {} \; -o \
  ! -type d ! -perm -444 -exec /bin/sh 
/usr/local/core/build/automake-1.8/tests/testSubDir/install-sh -c -m a+r {} {} \; \
|| chmod -R a+r aclocal4-1.0
test -f aclocal4-1.0/lib/foo.c
make: *** [check-foo] Error 1
FAIL: aclocal4.test
=====================================
1 of 1 tests failed
Please report to address@hidden
=====================================
make[1]: *** [check-TESTS] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/core/build/automake-1.8/tests'
make: *** [check-am] Error 2


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