Re: [GNU Autoconf 2.63] testsuite: 27 failed

[Eric Blake]

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[adding bug-automake]

According to address@hidden on 3/17/2009 8:09 PM:
> To whom it may concern,

Hello Sara,

>  
> Attached are some of the files that generated afer I try the "make check". 
> Could you tell me how to solve this problem? Thank you very much!

Thanks for the report.  Some highlights from your attachments:

> uname -r = 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6
> uname -s = Linux
...
> automake (GNU automake) 1.9.6
...
> ./tools.at:976: automake --no-force --add-missing
> stderr:
> configure.in: installing `./install-sh'; error while making link: Operation 
> not supported
> configure.in: installing `./missing'; error while making link: Operation not 
> supported
> ./tools.at:976: exit code was 1, expected 0

Maybe it's worth upgrading to automake 1.10.1 and seeing if the problem
goes away?  Maybe the automake list will recognize this particular failure
(the failure was in automake, not autoconf, although it had the effect of
failing that part of the autoconf testsuite).

Meanwhile, what file system are you using?  I've never seen a link fail
with "Operation not supported" on Linux before, so something is going on
that would be worth understanding better.

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             address@hidden
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