Re: obsolete.test failed for 1.8.5-r1 on Gentoo

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 07:27:19AM -0500, Brant Gurganus wrote:
> Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
>
> >>>>"Brant" == Brant Gurganus <address@hidden> writes:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >
> >Brant> The obsolete.test test case failed for version 1.8.5-r1 on Gentoo.
> >Brant> The results of running that test manually from outside the Portage
> >Brant> sandbox are:
> >
> >[...]
> >
> >Brant> ++ grep AC_FEATURE_CTYPE stderr
> >Brant> ++ exit 1
> >
> >Thanks for the report.
> >
> >What do tests/testSubDir/stderr and
> >tests/testSubDir/configure.in contain after the test has failed?
> >
> >
> stderr:
> Usage: autoconf [-h] [--help] [-m dir] [--macrodir=dir]
>       [-l dir] [--localdir=dir] [--version] [template-file]

That's Autoconf 2.13 speaking, while Automake 1.8 needs Autoconf 2.58.

Probably your distribution comes with a wrapper around autoconf that
tries to guess which version of Autoconf to use and fails to use 2.58
here.  Please complain to the maintainer of this wrapper, or uninstall it,
or overwrite it with the real GNU Autoconf.