Re: [GNU Autoconf 2.65] testsuite: 229 failed

2010-03-01 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Gene Spafford wrote on Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 03:45:11AM CET: Actually, I had something like that in place, but found an old (very old) debugging statement that was putting out a single space. Once fixed, those problems went away. Good. I have built or tried to build the following 4

Re: [GNU Autoconf 2.65] testsuite: 229 failed

2010-03-01 Thread Gene Spafford
ntp won't even build because of something in the configuration files. The thing that I don't understand is: why do you even need any of Autoconf or Automake installed for building an ntp release tarball? It should contain all autotool-generated files, leaving you only to run ./configure

Re: [GNU Autoconf 2.65] testsuite: 229 failed

2010-02-28 Thread Gene Spafford
Actually, I had something like that in place, but found an old (very old) debugging statement that was putting out a single space. Once fixed, those problems went away. I have built or tried to build the following 4 packages on my system: m4-1.4.14 automake-1.11 autoconf-2.65 ntp-4.2.6p1-RC5

Re: [GNU Autoconf 2.65] testsuite: 229 failed

2010-02-27 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Gene Spafford wrote on Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 03:37:42AM CET: I use ksh As part of the .profile, it runs the terminal reset sequence each login I don't see this as bad behavior The ,kshrc file sets the prompt and does no other output. I don't see either of these as setting up a bad

Re: [GNU Autoconf 2.65] testsuite: 229 failed

2010-02-26 Thread Gene Spafford
I use ksh As part of the .profile, it runs the terminal reset sequence each login I don't see this as bad behavior The ,kshrc file sets the prompt and does no other output. I don't see either of these as setting up a bad environment I don't see why either should break the test scripts. On

Re: [GNU Autoconf 2.65] testsuite: 229 failed

2010-02-25 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Gene, let's keep the mailing list in CC:, thanks. * Gene Spafford wrote on Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 10:15:07PM CET: On Feb 25, 2010, at 3:40 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * Gene Spafford wrote on Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 03:56:24PM CET: [...] 229. torture.at:1549: testing ...

Re: [GNU Autoconf 2.65] testsuite: 229 failed

2010-02-25 Thread Gene Spafford
Thanks for the reply, Ralf. I am enclosing the output of the make check on the m4 build so you can see the failures. The build of ntp also failed because of some confusion about types being defined or not. I have no idea what is going on, but it sure makes it difficult to build and install