Re: [BUG] automake 1.9 failure to build

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello, and thanks for the bug report.

* Technomage-hawke wrote on Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 05:32:13AM CET:
[...]
> X-1:~/build/automake-1.9 root# export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/local/lib
> X-1:~/build/automake-1.9 root# export LIBDIR=/opt/local/lib
> X-1:~/build/automake-1.9 root# ./configure --prefix=/opt/local
> checking build system type... i686-apple-darwin8.4.1
[...]
> FAIL: exdir2.test
[...]
> FAIL: man2.test
[...]
> FAIL: transform.test
[...]
> =====================================
> 3 of 526 tests failed
> (22 tests were not run)

You can look at the verbose output of these tests like this:
  cd ~/build/automake-1.9/tests
  make check VERBOSE=yes TESTS='exdir2.test man2.test transform.test'

But I bet that the issue is that you have a new Autoconf (2.60 or newer)
but this old Automake.  1.9 is more than three years old, the current
version is 1.10.  If my guess is true, no need to show any error output,
just update your Automake version occasionally.

Please also note that you are not required to build Automake as root,
and would suggest against doing so, in general.  It's sufficient to do
the `make install' step with privileges.

Cheers,
Ralf