Re: failure in make check

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Angeline,

* Angeline Gail Burrell wrote on Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 07:55:19AM CEST:
>
> I'm having difficulting getting automake installed.  It will compile and 
> make, but fails 3 tests (actually fails 6, but 3 of these are expected 
> failures).

> I tried to find out how to fix it online, but without 
> success.  Any help would be appreciated.  I'm running this on a iBook G4 
> with Tiger (upgraded from Panther).  The attachment make_auto.am has the 
> stdout from $make check, while make_auto.tests has the stdout from $make 
> check for tests ausdir2, cond17, lisp3, lisp6, lisp8, and txinfo5 in 
> verbose mode.  The second one was large, so I gzipped them.

Thanks for providing verbose logs of those test failures.  All three
fail after the point emacs is called, but it gives no error message.
The emacs reports itself as:
| GNU Emacs 21.2.1

Can you try out the following, in an otherwise empty directory, and post
all output?  Thanks.

echo "(provide 'foo)" > foo.el
echo "(setq load-path (cons nil load-path))" > script
emacs -batch -q -l script -f batch-byte-compile *.el
echo $?
ls -l

Cheers,
Ralf