bug#68186: [GNU automake 1.16.5] test-suite 45 tests failed

[Erik A Johnson]

Thanks, Karl.  automake-1.16.5/t/dist-vs-built-sources.dir/foo.c only has two 
lines:
#include "h.h"
int main (void) { printf ("%s\n", F); return 0; }

Also, automake-1.16.5/t/dist-vs-built-sources.sh only appears to be writing 
those two lines to foo.c and there is no inclusion of <stdio.h>.

Does that give you any clues?  Thx.

Erik

> On Dec 30, 2023, at 2:56 PM, Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> wrote:
> 
>    Subject: [GNU automake 1.16.5] test-suite 45 tests failed
>    Clean install of macOS Sonoma 14.2.1 on MacBook Pro M3 max
> 
> Thanks for the report, but it seems like something in the environment is
> causing trouble. For example, one of the failing tests is
> dist-vs-built-sources.sh:
> 
>    gcc -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"dist-vs-built-sources\" 
> -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"dist-vs-built-sources\" -DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"1.0\" 
> -DPACKAGE_STRING=\"dist-vs-built-sources\ 1.0\" -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"\" 
> -DPACKAGE_URL=\"\" -DPACKAGE=\"dist-vs-built-sources\" -DVERSION=\"1.0\" -I.  
>    -g -O2 -MT foo.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/foo.Tpo -c -o foo.o foo.c
>    foo.c:2:19: error: call to undeclared library function 'printf' with type 
> 'int (const char *, ...)'; ISO C99 and later do not support implicit function 
> declarations [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
>    int main (void) { printf ("%s\n", F); return 0; }
>                      ^
>    foo.c:2:19: note: include the header <stdio.h> or explicitly provide a 
> declaration for 'printf'
> 
> However, <stdio.h> is already included. The test program is these three
> lines (h.h is a trivial #define):
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include "h.h"
> int main (void) { printf ("%s\n", F); return 0; }
> 
> So the failure doesn't make sense to me.  I have no access to Sonoma or
> other way to debug, unfortunately.
> 
> The other failures also look like they relate to the test suite programs
> in this particular environment, rather than actual Automake
> functionality.
> 
> Maybe someone else here has an idea or a way to proceed. --thanks, karl.