On Sun, Jul 11, 2021 at 9:03 PM Jacob Bachmeyer <jcb62...@gmail.com> wrote: > I was planning to find a solution with a complete patch before > mentioning this, but since a release is imminent I will just state the > problem: several tests in the Automake testsuite misuse DejaGnu and > fail with the 1.6.3 DejaGnu release as a result. > > DejaGnu has always required a DejaGnu testsuite to be rooted at a > "testsuite" directory and this has long been documented in the manual. > However, prior to 1.6.3, DejaGnu did not actually depend on this > requirement being met. Changes during the development process to > properly support non-recursive Automake makefiles required relying on > this requirement to resolve the ambiguity between recursive and > non-recursive usage. Several tests in the Automake testsuite do not > meet this requirement and fail if run with DejaGnu 1.6.3. > > The simple change of updating the tests to use a testsuite/ directory > causes the tests to fail with older versions of DejaGnu, due to lack of > support for non-recursive "make check" in those versions. I have not > yet tried a patch that also switches the tests to use recursive make, > but I believe that is probably the only way for the tests to pass with > old and new DejaGnu. > > Note that, according to the original author, Rob Savoye, DejaGnu has > always been intended to require that testsuites be rooted at a > "testsuite" directory and the behavior that Automake's test cases rely > on was never supported. > > The affected tests are: check12, dejagnu3, dejagnu4, dejagnu5, > dejagnu6, dejagnu7, dejagnu-absolute-builddir, dejagnu-relative-srcdir, > dejgnu-siteexp-extend, dejagnu-siteexp-useredit. > > Note that these tests do not all fail with the 1.6.3 release, but will > all fail with some future release when the undocumented support for a > testsuite not rooted at "testsuite" will eventually be removed.
Thank you for the analysis and heads-up. I see that Fedora 34 currently has only dejagnu-1.6.1. If this is something you can help with now, I can certainly wait a few days. Even a sample fix for one of the currently-failing tests would be helpful.
