bug#26514: make check - t/gettext-macros.sh hangs

[Mathieu Lirzin]

tags 26514 patch fixed
close 26514
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Hello Bruno,

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:

> On a Ubuntu 16.04 system (which happens to have the package 'gettext'
> installed but the package 'autopoint' not installed) "make check"
> of Automake 1.15 hangs:
>
> $ ./configure
> $ make
> $ make check 2>&1 | tee log3
> ...
> gcj6: skipped test: GNU Java compiler unavailable
> SKIP: t/gcj6.sh
>
> "ps" shows the following processes running for 45 minutes:
>
>   make test-suite.log TEST_LOGS=t/get-sysconf.log ...
>  -> /bin/bash -c p='t/gettext-macros.sh'; ...
>  -> /bin/bash ./lib/test-driver --test-name t/gettext-macros.sh --log-file 
> t/gettext-macros.log --trs-file t/gettext-macros.trs --color-tests no 
> --enable-hard-errors yes --expect-failure no -- /bin/bash 
> ./t/gettext-macros.sh
>  -> /bin/bash ./t/gettext-macros.sh
>  -> /bin/sh /usr/bin/gettextize --force
>
> 'autopoint' is not found (since package 'autopoint' is not installed),
> and 'gettextize' is found in /usr/bin/ (as part of package 'gettext').
>
> The fix is obviously to NEVER attempt to run gettextize from a test script,
> because gettextize is an *interactive* tool [1]. The test intended to cope 
> with
> GNU gettext versions that predate the introduction of 'autopoint'. But these
> versions are older than July 2002; we can ignore them by now.

You definitely have a better understanding of what should be done for
gettext related stuff than I do.  So I trust your expertise.

Applied in commit fc3afa8fe4d65bfad650b6230e1dc12d391a5477.

Thank you.

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Mathieu Lirzin
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