Re: FYI, 11 mostly-test-related patches

[Bo Borgerson]

Eric Blake wrote:
> I'm now seeing this when running ./bootstrap:
> 
> ./bootstrap: m4/xsize.m4 overrides ._bootmp2/m4/xsize.m4
> Undefined subroutine &Test::test_vector called at tests/mk-script line 44.
> ./bootstrap: aclocal --force -I m4 ...
> 
> and am not yet sure if it is from one of these patches or from an external 
> change of upgrading from perl 5.8.8 to 5.10.0.
> 

Hmm... I'm not seeing that (still on 5.8.8 here).

But I _am_ seeing some warnings about trying to mess around in
`tests/wc', which doesn't seem to exist anymore.

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./bootstrap: cp -f ._bootmp2/po/remove-potcdate.sin po/remove-potcdate.sin
./bootstrap: 537: cannot create tests/wc/Makefile.amt: Directory nonexistent
./bootstrap: 537: cannot create tests/wc/Makefile.amt: Directory nonexistent
./bootstrap: 537: cannot create tests/wc/Makefile.amt: Directory nonexistent
./bootstrap: 537: cannot create tests/wc/Makefile.amt: Directory nonexistent
chmod: cannot access `tests/wc/Makefile.amt': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat `tests/wc/Makefile.amt': No such file or directory
./bootstrap: aclocal --force -I m4 ...

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I've attached a patch that addresses this.

Thanks,

Bo

>From 07cf6a226f75aa9e91060d657fdfebff6e74a618 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bo Borgerson <address@hidden>
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:58:51 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Remove references to tests/wc from bootstrap

* bootstrap: Don't try to initialize anything in tests/wc.

Signed-off-by: Bo Borgerson <address@hidden>
---
 bootstrap |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/bootstrap b/bootstrap
index 1274af2..c4b9b62 100755
--- a/bootstrap
+++ b/bootstrap
@@ -535,7 +535,7 @@ fi
 mam_template=tests/Makefile.am.in
 if test -f $mam_template; then
   PERL=perl
-  for tool in cut head join pr sort tac tail test tr uniq wc; do
+  for tool in cut head join pr sort tac tail test tr uniq; do
     m=tests/$tool/Makefile.am
     t=${m}t
     rm -f $m $t
-- 
1.5.4.3