automake test suite error: spy.test

[mjbauer]

Greetings:

I am building automake 1.9.5 on Solaris 9 (sparc) with GNU make 3.80,
GNU m4 1.4, and perl 5.6.1.  When I run the test suite, spy.test
fails.  I've found one other exchange over this issue, dealing with
automake 1.9.3 and Solaris 8, at
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-automake/2004-11/msg00041.html
with the apparently identical problem.

I've attached the output from spy.test.

MJB

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Verbose output from spy.test:

> make -Ctests VERBOSE=x TESTS='spy.test' check
make: Entering directory `/home/mjbauer/build/automake/src/tests'
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/mjbauer/build/automake/src'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mjbauer/build/automake/src'
make  defs aclocal-1.9 automake-1.9
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/mjbauer/build/automake/src/tests'
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/mjbauer/build/automake/src'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/mjbauer/build/automake/src'
make[1]: `defs' is up to date.
make[1]: `aclocal-1.9' is up to date.
make[1]: `automake-1.9' is up to date.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mjbauer/build/automake/src/tests'
make  check-TESTS
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/mjbauer/build/automake/src/tests'
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/mjbauer/build/automake/src'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/mjbauer/build/automake/src'
/home/mjbauer/build/automake/src/tests:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/bin/mh:/usr/local/openssl/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/sbin:/usr/platform/sun4u/sbin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/local/lib:/usr/lib:/usr/local/libexec:/usr/ucblib:/usr/openwin/bin:/home/jeffw/bin:/opt/csw/bin:/usr/local/apache/bin
=== Running test ./spy.test
+ pwd 
/home/mjbauer/build/automake/src/tests/testSubDir
+ set -e 
+ cat 
+ touch b c 
+ sleep 2 
+ : 
+ make 
make: `a' is up to date.
+ cat a 
+ test  =  
+ sleep 2 
+ touch b 
+ make 
echo rule1 >> a
+ cat a 
+ test rule1 = rule1 
+ : 
+ sleep 2 
+ touch c 
+ make 
make: `a' is up to date.
+ cat a 
+ test  = rule2 
FAIL: spy.test
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1 of 1 tests failed
Please report to address@hidden
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make[1]: *** [check-TESTS] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mjbauer/build/automake/src/tests'
make: *** [check-am] Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/home/mjbauer/build/automake/src/tests'