Please don't top-post on this mailing list. On Tue, Oct 11, 2022, at 12:15 PM, Frederic Berat wrote: > On Fri, Oct 7, 2022 at 6:11 PM Zack Weinberg <z...@owlfolio.org> wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 6, 2022, at 4:25 PM, Karl Berry wrote: >>>> No errors on RHEL7+autoconf2.71 >>> >>> Puzzling. Can you easily try RHEL8 or one of its derivatives? >>> It surprises me that that is the culprit, but it seems possible. >> >> Unfortunately, no. > > I don't know if that will help, or if that is completely unrelated, > but I'm currently stumbling into a weird issue while working on a > new package release for autoconf on Fedora: about 200 tests are now > failing, all related to aclocal checks. > > My current investigation shows that it would be related to a bash > update from 5.1.x to 5.2x which seems to have changed the behavior > of the "SHLVL" shell variable.
This is a known issue, fixed on Autoconf development trunk, see https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/autoconf.git/commit/?id=412166e185c00d6eacbe67dfcb0326f622ec4020 I intend to make a bugfix release of Autoconf in the near future. > I actually wonder if your sudden "parallelism" failure could be > somehow linked to an update of bash, similar to mine ? It's certainly possible. zw
