Re: Automake 1.11.1 glitch?

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Mon, 6 Sep 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:

> * Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 09:39:54PM CEST:
> > Hmm, maybe we can generate a makefile snippet on the fly, to be included
> > by the recursive make.
>
> Bob, can you try out this patch?

The GraphicsMagick test suite passes with this patch.  I do see one 
test failure with the Automake test suite

  FAIL: silent5.test

but this test may have been failing prior to the patch.

Bob

> Thanks,
> Ralf
>
> 2010-09-06  Ralf Wildenhues  <address@hidden>
>
>         parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue.
>         * lib/am/check.am [%?PARALLEL_TESTS%] (check-TESTS): Pass
>         sanitized TEST_LOGS value as makefile snippet on standard
>         input to $(MAKE), to avoid exceeding the command line limit on
>         w32 (MSYS).
>         Report by Bob Friesenhahn.
>
> diff --git a/lib/am/check.am b/lib/am/check.am
> index c612b22..39ae9d2 100644
> --- a/lib/am/check.am
> +++ b/lib/am/check.am
> @@ -236,10 +236,12 @@ check-TESTS:
> ## we rely on .PHONY to work portably.
>         @test -z "$(TEST_SUITE_LOG)" || rm -f $(TEST_SUITE_LOG)
>         @list='$(TEST_LOGS)';                                           \
> -       list=`for f in $$list; do                                       \
> -         test .log = $$f || echo $$f;                                  \
> -       done | tr '\012\015' '  '`;                                     \
> -       $(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) $(TEST_SUITE_LOG) TEST_LOGS="$$list"
> +       { echo "TEST_LOGS = ";                                                \
> +         for f in $$list; do                                           \
> +           test .log = $$f || echo $$f;                                \
> +         done;                                                         \
> +       } | { tr '\012\015' '  '; echo; }                               \
> +         | $(MAKE) -f Makefile -f - $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) $(TEST_SUITE_LOG)
>
> AM_RECURSIVE_TARGETS += check

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Bob Friesenhahn
address@hidden, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
GraphicsMagick Maintainer,    http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/