>>>>> "Bernard" == Bernard Dautrevaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Bernard> There is one test that fails, the autoupdate test (test 111
Bernard> in my case).
This is a known problem of autoupdate: it needs a powerful sed. I'm
thinking about rewriting it in Perl. Contribution are highly
appreciated :)
I'll change autoupdate so that it checks sed is GNU sed, this is
catching way too many people. I apologize for not having done this before.
Bernard> There is two problems in this test:
Bernard> First when creating "au.txt" using "autoconf --trace"
Bernard> autoconf was not able to find "acversion.m4"; I must say that
Bernard> I build autoconf in a subdirectory (name autoconf-native) of
Bernard> the autoconf directory; what seems to happen is that
Bernard> autoupdate is started with an autoconf_dir set to ../.., that
Bernard> is the source directory; however "acversion.m4" is in the
Bernard> build directory :-)
This is bizarre: make distcheck works fine and it runs a very similar
layout. I just checked what you said:
tar zxvf autoconf
cd autoconf
mkdir build
cd build
../configure
make check
and it works fine. It must be related to the other problem.
Bernard> I know I could install gnu sed, but not everybody is allways
Bernard> willing to.
I agree, nevertheless I will not try to have autoupdate be portable.
Portability is a PITA, and I won't devote time for portability issues
on the maintainer side.
Bernard> OTOH, there is only two sed scripts generated from au.txt,
Bernard> and only one use of each, so splitting them in less than 50
Bernard> line scripts (as is done for the scripts generated by
Bernard> config.status) should not be too complicated.
Bernard> Any better ideas?
Rewrite everything in Python :)
