Re: perl tests not using correct $PATH

[Pádraig Brady]

On 09/14/2012 04:54 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Pádraig Brady wrote:
> > I just did this and noticed that seq from
> > my system rather than the just build seq was used.
> >
> >    make check TESTS=tests/misc/seq.pl SUBDIRS=.
> >
> > I'll look later tonight, but someone might
> > know off the top of their heads what the issue is.
>
> Hi Pádraig,
>
> Thanks for testing and reporting that.
> However, so far, I cannot reproduce the problem:
>
>      $ make check TESTS=tests/misc/seq.pl SUBDIRS=.&&  head -1 
> tests/misc/seq.log
>      seq (GNU coreutils) 8.19.130-f1f7f
>
> while the one early in my path is 8.15:
>
>      $ seq --version|head -1
>      seq (GNU coreutils) 8.15

Ah OK. I was using the latest built automake
for my platform: automake-1.11.3-1.fc17.noarch
There is a bug logged to update to 1.11.6 to fix the CVE.
That req in bootstrap.conf is for 1.11.2

cheers,
Pádraig.