Re: Automake-1.10.1 failures on FreeBSD 7.0

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Unga,

please keep the mailing list in Cc:, thank you.

* Unga wrote on Sat, Oct 04, 2008 at 01:37:30PM CEST:
> --- On Sun, 9/28/08, Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> wrote:
> > * Unga wrote on Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 06:58:40AM CEST:
> > > 
> > > I have compiled Automake-1.10.1 from sources on i386 running
> > > FreeBSD 7.0.

> > > FAIL: instsh2.test
> > > FAIL: subpkg.test

> Test log is attached. Very sorry for my late reply. Pls let me know if
> you need more info.

Thanks for the feedback.  Are you using the pristine 1.10.1 sources from
the ftp.gnu.org website BTW, or some distribution package?  It looks
like a post-1.10.1 bugfix has been put in the test suite.

[ log excerpt from instsh2.test ]
> ./install-sh: d4//: Is a directory
> + touch a  b
> + mkdir x  y
> mkdir: x: File exists
> mkdir: y: File exists
> *** /bin/mkdir failed!
> FAIL: instsh2.test

Wow, looks like your mkdir isn't able to handle whitespace in the
argument.  Can you show the output of
  file /bin/mkdir

and if it's a script, the contents of /bin/mkdir?
Alternatively, it could be that the shell omitted to output a trace for
the
  ./install-sh 'a  b' 'x  y'

command following the mkdir above.  AFAICS install-sh is safe for names
containing white space, so I cannot see why this failed for you.

I've tried to reproduce the issue on a couple of FreeBSD hosts (XXX
versions), but they pass the test.

Thanks,
Ralf