check4.test consistently failing

[Philipp Thomas]

After Andreas Schwab left the company, I'm trying to maintain some of the
packages that he did before me and one of them is automake.

check4.test is from automake 1.10.2 is failing across all architectures for
openSUSE factory (i.e. current development branch):

=== Running test ./check4.test
++ pwd
/usr/src/packages/BUILD/automake-1.10.2/tests/testSubDir
+ set -e
+ cat
+ mkdir dir
+ cat
+ echo TESTS = fail.sh
+ cat
+ cat
+ chmod +x ok.sh dir/fail.sh
+ aclocal-1.10 -Werror
+ autoconf
+ automake-1.10 --foreign -Werror -Wall
++ pwd
+ ./configure --prefix
/usr/src/packages/BUILD/automake-1.10.2/tests/testSubDir/inst
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating dir/Makefile
+ make check
make[2]: *** [check-TESTS] Error 1
make[1]: *** [check-am] Error 2
make: *** [check-recursive] Error 1
+ cat stdout
Making check in dir
make[1]: Entering directory
`/usr/src/packages/BUILD/automake-1.10.2/tests/testSubDir/dir'
make  check-TESTS
make[2]: Entering directory
`/usr/src/packages/BUILD/automake-1.10.2/tests/testSubDir/dir'
FAIL: fail.sh
==================
1 of 1 test failed
==================
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/usr/src/packages/BUILD/automake-1.10.2/tests/testSubDir/dir'
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/usr/src/packages/BUILD/automake-1.10.2/tests/testSubDir/dir'
+ grep 'FAIL: fail.sh' stdout
FAIL: fail.sh
+ grep 'PASS: ok.sh' stdout
+ make -k check
make[2]: *** [check-TESTS] Error 1
make[1]: *** [check-am] Error 2
make[1]: Target `check' not remade because of errors.
make: *** [check-recursive] Error 1
make: Target `check' not remade because of errors.

I wonder if anyone can help me pinpoint the culprit?

Philipp