Re: [GNU Autoconf 2.72e] testsuite: 11 40 41 45 280 281 282 286 287 failed on OS X 10.4

Sevan Janiyan Thu, 21 Dec 2023 15:09:39 -0800

With up to date automake & m4, I only get 2 test failures on OS X 10.4 now.
[GNU Autoconf 2.72e] testsuite: 11 41 failed


I used automake 1.16.5 & m4 1.4.19
and still used the ancient GNU Make 3.80 which comes with OS X Tiger.

Whilst here, I tested on OS X 10.5 (on intel), and had the sametestsuite failures as in the subject line, using up to date automake &m4 and reruning the testsuite resulted in just 1 test failure, asexpected, #11.

I wonder if using an up to date make on Tiger will resolve the issuewith test #41. Will try and report back.


## ------------------------------ ##
## GNU Autoconf 2.72e test suite. ##
## ------------------------------ ##

testsuite: command line was:
  $ tests/testsuite -C tests MAKE=make

## ---------- ##
## ChangeLog. ##
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| 2023-12-20  Zack Weinberg  <z...@owlfolio.org>
|
|       update NEWS for 2.72e release candidate
|
|       spelling errors reported by “make syntax-check”
|
| 2023-12-19  Zack Weinberg  <z...@owlfolio.org>
|
|       Adjust --help and manpages to make it easier to find the Web manual.
|       Today it came to my attention that, if you don’t already know that all

## --------- ##
## Platform. ##
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hostname = imac.local
uname -m = Power Macintosh
uname -r = 8.11.0
uname -s = Darwin

uname -v = Darwin Kernel Version 8.11.0: Wed Oct 10 18:26:00 PDT 2007;root:xnu-792.24.17~1/RELEASE_PPC


/usr/bin/uname -p = powerpc
/bin/uname -X     = unknown

/bin/arch              = unknown
/usr/bin/arch -k       = unknown
/usr/convex/getsysinfo = unknown
/usr/bin/hostinfo      = Mach kernel version:

Darwin Kernel Version 8.11.0: Wed Oct 10 18:26:00 PDT 2007;root:xnu-792.24.17~1/RELEASE_PPC

Kernel configured for a single processor only.
1 processor is physically available.
Processor type: ppc970 (PowerPC 970)
Processor active: 0
Primary memory available: 2.00 gigabytes
Default processor set: 58 tasks, 141 threads, 1 processors
Load average: 2.14, Mach factor: 0.18
/bin/machine           = unknown
/usr/bin/oslevel       = unknown
/bin/universe          = unknown

PATH: /Users/sme/tmp/autoconf-2.72e/tests/
PATH: /Users/sme/Sandbox/tigerbrew/opt/automake/bin/
PATH: /Users/sme/Sandbox/tigerbrew/opt/m4/bin/
PATH: /bin/
PATH: /sbin/
PATH: /usr/bin/
PATH: /usr/sbin/

testsuite: atconfig:
| # Configurable variable values for building test suites.
| # Generated by ./config.status.
| # Copyright (C) 2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
|
| # The test suite will define top_srcdir=/../.. etc.
| at_testdir='tests'
| abs_builddir='/Users/sme/tmp/autoconf-2.72e/tests'
| at_srcdir='.'
| abs_srcdir='/Users/sme/tmp/autoconf-2.72e/tests'
| at_top_srcdir='..'
| abs_top_srcdir='/Users/sme/tmp/autoconf-2.72e'
| at_top_build_prefix='../'
| abs_top_builddir='/Users/sme/tmp/autoconf-2.72e'
|
| # Backward compatibility with Autotest <= 2.59b:
| at_top_builddir=$at_top_build_prefix
|
| AUTOTEST_PATH='tests'
|
| SHELL=${CONFIG_SHELL-'/bin/sh'}

testsuite: atlocal:
| # -*- shell-script -*-
| # tests/atlocal.  Generated from atlocal.in by configure.
| # Configurable variable values for Autoconf test suite.
|
| # Copyright (C) 2000-2001, 2005, 2008-2017, 2020-2023 Free Software
| # Foundation, Inc.
| #
| # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
| # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
| # the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
| # (at your option) any later version.
| #
| # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
| # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
| # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
| # GNU General Public License for more details.
| #
| # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
| # along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
|
| AWK='awk'
| EGREP='/usr/bin/grep -E'
| GREP='/usr/bin/grep'
| M4='/Users/sme/Sandbox/tigerbrew/opt/m4/bin/m4'
| PERL='/usr/bin/perl'
| SED='/usr/bin/sed'
|
| # We need to know if sh -n is ok.
| SHELL_N='/bin/sh'
|
| # Check whether the underlying system can manage some unusual
| # symbols in file names.
| if test -z ''; then
|   func_sanitize_file_name () { echo "$@"; }
| else
|   func_sanitize_file_name () { echo "$@" | tr -d ''; }
| fi
|
| # Can we create directories with trailing whitespace in their names?
| ac_cv_dir_trailing_space='yes'
| if test "$ac_cv_dir_trailing_space" = yes; then
|   func_sanitize_dir_name () { echo "$@"; }
| else
|   func_sanitize_dir_name () { echo "$@" | sed 's/  *$//'; }
| fi
|
| # AUTOM4TE might be set in the environment.  Override it here so that
| # direct aclocal invocations also use it.
| AUTOM4TE=autom4te
| export AUTOM4TE

./local.at:34: using 1s as timestamp resolution

## ---------------- ##
## Tested programs. ##
## ---------------- ##

./local.at:25: /Users/sme/tmp/autoconf-2.72e/tests/autom4te --version
autom4te (GNU Autoconf) 2.72e

Copyright (C) 2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+/Autoconf: GNU GPL version 3 or later