Hi Peter - thanks for trying the automake pretest. I get one failure (t/nodef)
I suspect a timing problem, since I can't fathom any reason why that particular test would fail on your system specifically. (The test basically just runs a minimal automake twice.) with autoconf 2.71. Indeed, since you're not using the development autoconf :), automake should be falling back to a 1-second delay at various points, but apparently isn't. I'll have to investigate further. Please let me know if I can help. Could you try running the test on its own? make VERBOSE=1 check TESTS=t/nodef.sh keep_testdirs=yes I rather suspect it will succeed. --thanks again, karl.