Fwd: Re: library/6407: BUG: automake with no AUTOMAKE_VERSION has zero exit status

[Ken Dickey]

I filed bug# 6407 in the OpenBSD tracking system:

  http://www.openbsd.org/query-pr.html

The test suite passes 100% with the 'fix'.

Many thanks,
-KenD
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On Friday 18 June 2010 11:16:55 Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
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> Most of your failures look like this, with an error from autoconf,
> automake, or aclocal.  This is due to OpenBSD providing wrappers for
> these programs in /usr/local/bin which require you to set the
> environment variables AUTOCONF_VERSION and AUTOMAKE_VERSION to versions
> which you have installed.  These wrappers have a bug, in that they do
> not exit with a failure status after this error message, otherwise the
> Libtool test suite would have skipped these tests.
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> I remember to have mentioned this bug a while ago to someone I thought
> was an OpenBSD developer, but it seems to still be unfixed.  Could you
> please open a PR with them to have it fixed?  The issue is that
>   /usr/local/bin/{autoconf,automake,aclocal}
> 
> should have nonzero exit status when the respective variable is not set.
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> Fri, 18 Jun 2010 15:45:01 -0600 (MDT)
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> Thank you very much for your problem report.
> It has the internal identification `library/6407'.
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> >Synopsis:       automake with no AUTOMAKE_VERSION has zero exit status
> >Arrival-Date:   Fri Jun 18 21:40:01 GMT 2010
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