Greetings: I am building automake 1.9.5 on Solaris 9 (sparc) with GNU make 3.80, GNU m4 1.4, and perl 5.6.1. When I run the test suite, spy.test fails. I've found one other exchange over this issue, dealing with automake 1.9.3 and Solaris 8, at http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-automake/2004-11/msg00041.html with the apparently identical problem.
I've attached the output from spy.test. MJB ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Verbose output from spy.test: > make -Ctests VERBOSE=x TESTS='spy.test' check make: Entering directory `/home/mjbauer/build/automake/src/tests' make[1]: Entering directory `/home/mjbauer/build/automake/src' make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mjbauer/build/automake/src' make defs aclocal-1.9 automake-1.9 make[1]: Entering directory `/home/mjbauer/build/automake/src/tests' make[2]: Entering directory `/home/mjbauer/build/automake/src' make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/mjbauer/build/automake/src' make[1]: `defs' is up to date. make[1]: `aclocal-1.9' is up to date. make[1]: `automake-1.9' is up to date. make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mjbauer/build/automake/src/tests' make check-TESTS make[1]: Entering directory `/home/mjbauer/build/automake/src/tests' make[2]: Entering directory `/home/mjbauer/build/automake/src' make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/mjbauer/build/automake/src' /home/mjbauer/build/automake/src/tests:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/bin/mh:/usr/local/openssl/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/sbin:/usr/platform/sun4u/sbin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/local/lib:/usr/lib:/usr/local/libexec:/usr/ucblib:/usr/openwin/bin:/home/jeffw/bin:/opt/csw/bin:/usr/local/apache/bin === Running test ./spy.test + pwd /home/mjbauer/build/automake/src/tests/testSubDir + set -e + cat + touch b c + sleep 2 + : + make make: `a' is up to date. + cat a + test = + sleep 2 + touch b + make echo rule1 >> a + cat a + test rule1 = rule1 + : + sleep 2 + touch c + make make: `a' is up to date. + cat a + test = rule2 FAIL: spy.test ===================================== 1 of 1 tests failed Please report to [email protected] ===================================== make[1]: *** [check-TESTS] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mjbauer/build/automake/src/tests' make: *** [check-am] Error 2 make: Leaving directory `/home/mjbauer/build/automake/src/tests'
