testsuite failures when test scripts are run with zsh

[Stefano Lattarini]

Hi everybody.

I forced the automake testsuite to run tests in parallel using the
*Zsh* shell, with the following command:
 $ make -j5 TEST_LOG_COMPILER='zsh  --nofunctionargzero' check

The following failures turned up:

FAIL: aclocal8.test (exit: 1)
FAIL: acsilent.test (exit: 1)
FAIL: depcomp2.test (exit: 1)
FAIL: getopt.test (exit: 1)
FAIL: location.test (exit: 1)
FAIL: missing3.test (exit: 1)
FAIL: output-order.test (exit: 1)
FAIL: parallel-tests4.test (exit: 2)
FAIL: unused.test (exit: 1)
FAIL: warnopts.test (exit: 1)
FAIL: check9-p.test (exit: 2)

By the way, the following tests was skipped:

SKIP: depcomp5.test (exit: 77)
SKIP: fort4.test (exit: 77)
SKIP: fort5.test (exit: 77)
SKIP: upc.test (exit: 77)
SKIP: upc3.test (exit: 77)
SKIP: vala2.test (exit: 77)
SKIP: vala3.test (exit: 77)
SKIP: vala5.test (exit: 77)
SKIP: xz.test (exit: 77)

The produced test-suite.log is attached. Let me know if you need also
the content of the tests/*.dir directories for the failing tests.

As an aside, please note the `--nofunctionargzero' option of zsh
is *necessary* to have zsh work correctly, even if the bourne
compatibility mode is explicitly set in `tests/defs'; the rationale
for this can be found in a previous thread of the bug-automake
list, archived at:
 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-automake/2009-08/msg00013.html

Environment details:
  * automake: checked out from latest git version, not re-bootstrapped
    (i.e. using configure Makefile.in etc. as checked out from git);
    the command `git describe --abbrev=50' returns:
      v1.11-21-ga0a47d08dd6cc286e91b90ecd7c86ed1dd5ba8a0
  * make: GNU Make 3.81
  * OS: Debian GNU/Linux testing/unstable
  * `uname -s -r -m -o`:  Linux 2.6.26-1-686 i686 GNU/Linux
  * zsh version: 4.3.10 (i686-pc-linux-gnu), from debian package
     zsh_4.3.10-3

Regards,
   Stefano

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