Re: automake-1.10.1 fails missing & missing2

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Tim Rice wrote on Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 02:02:24AM CET:
> On Sun, 23 Nov 2008, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > * Tim Rice wrote on Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 02:40:29AM CET:
> > > 
> > > I'm trying to track down why the missing and missing2 test fail.
> > > The complete output of 
> > > "gmake -C tests VERBOSE=x TESTS='missing.test missing2.test' -e check"
> > > is attached.

> > Please try this patch.  Thanks.  OK to put you in THANKS?
> > (I still need to write a test case for this.)
> 
> Thanks, that helped.

Good.  Pushed, together with this test change, master and branch-1-10.

Cheers,
Ralf

    * tests/missing.test: Amend test.

diff --git a/tests/missing.test b/tests/missing.test
index 7d54183..911a552 100755
--- a/tests/missing.test
+++ b/tests/missing.test
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 #! /bin/sh
-# Copyright (C) 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright (C) 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008  Free Software Foundation,
+# Inc.
 #
 # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -43,6 +44,16 @@ $sleep
 echo 'AC_PREREQ(9999)' >> aclocal.m4
 $MAKE distdir
 
+# Try version number suffixes if we can add them safely.
+case $MYAUTOCONF in *autoconf)
+  ./configure AUTOCONF="${MYAUTOCONF}6789"
+  $MAKE
+  $sleep
+  # Hopefully the install version of Autoconf cannot compete with this one...
+  echo 'AC_PREREQ(9999)' >> aclocal.m4
+  $MAKE distdir
+esac
+
 # Run again, but without missing, to ensure that timestamps were updated.
 export AUTOMAKE ACLOCAL
 ./configure AUTOCONF="$MYAUTOCONF"