check10.test failure (was: check4.test consistently failing)

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Philipp,

BTW, you sent mail to RalfWildenhues at suse.de.  This mail address does
not belong to me, if it even exists.

* Philipp Thomas wrote on Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 12:48:20PM CEST:
> * Ralf Wildenhues (address@hidden) [20090429 21:02]:
> 
> > That "just" is an interesting statement.  I had to create an account
> > with Novell, then had to click through more pages.
> 
> Sorry, I shoulkd have warned you, but it's so familiar to me I forgetr the
> initial hassles.

No worries.  I just thought I'd mention it.

> > The specific failure I found was due to /bin/sh being a ksh variant,
> > and fixed with this post-1.10.2 patch.
> 
> Well, if you can call bash 4.x a ksh variant ... :)

Are you really hundred percent positively sure that the shell on the
build system in question was bash, not some ksh?  Because I cannot
reproduce a failure with check10.test either with bash 4.0.10.

> > > > Second, do you have a testcase that shows what the require_file_internal
> > > > patch is required for?
> > > 
> > > See https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=64822
> > 
> > Even with an account, I am not allowed to see this.  Wonder what kind of
> > policy is behind that.
> 
> I didn't see that the bug had been marked 'open to SUSE Enterprise
> customers' as is the default for bugs found in our enterprise products. I've
> put you in CC of that bug so you should now be able to access it.

Well, thanks, but this isn't supposed to be a private one-man show.
More to the point, I would prefer to keep all maintenance matters
on publicly archived lists and bug trackers if possible; that way,
another person can pick up where one stops.  It's enough that some
issues warrant private communication, there shouldn't be any more
than necessary.

> > Can you please send a full bug report containing all necessary
> > information from above PR to bug-automake, including a reproducible test
> > case, in a separate thread?  Thanks.
> 
> I haven't before created a test case for automake but I'll try.

I'll reply to the one you sent, separately.

Thanks!
Ralf