Re: [Autogen-users] Many tests failing due to value of LIBGUILE_PATH

2013-10-14 Thread Bruce Korb
On 10/14/13 10:10, Eric Bavier wrote: > The real problem for most of these tests seems to be the use of > "/usr/bin/tr" instead of just "tr", since tr might not be installed at > in /usr/bin. Yep. I need to add: TR=`command -v tr` test -x "$TR" || die "'tr' program is missing" and _then_ us

Re: [Autogen-users] Many tests failing due to value of LIBGUILE_PATH

2013-10-14 Thread Eric Bavier
Bruce Korb writes: > On 10/10/13 13:50, Eric Bavier wrote: >> I was working on packaging AutoGen for Guix (www.gnu.org/software/guix) >> and came across a number of failing tests with `make check` (19 of 24 in >> autoopts failed). > > I am now wondering how that might have happened. > The "init_t

Re: [Autogen-users] Many tests failing due to value of LIBGUILE_PATH

2013-10-12 Thread Bruce Korb
On 10/10/13 13:50, Eric Bavier wrote: > I was working on packaging AutoGen for Guix (www.gnu.org/software/guix) > and came across a number of failing tests with `make check` (19 of 24 in > autoopts failed). I am now wondering how that might have happened. The "init_tests" function should not be ru

Re: [Autogen-users] Many tests failing due to value of LIBGUILE_PATH

2013-10-11 Thread Bruce Korb
Hi Eric, In the intervening years, I've forgotten how everything gets done. That automation is part of how I limit what I have to remember :). Anyway: On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 7:03 AM, Eric Bavier wrote: > Also, I was wondering, since the problem is essentially that the the > current method picks

Re: [Autogen-users] Many tests failing due to value of LIBGUILE_PATH

2013-10-11 Thread Eric Bavier
Bruce Korb writes: > On 10/10/13 13:50, Eric Bavier wrote: >> Why not use LIBGUILE_PATH=`guile-config info libdir` instead? > > Because, cleverly, not all distributions distribute (install) > guile-config. I suggested the guile-config option because I saw that guile-config was already being used

Re: [Autogen-users] Many tests failing due to value of LIBGUILE_PATH

2013-10-10 Thread Bruce Korb
On 10/10/13 13:50, Eric Bavier wrote: > I was working on packaging AutoGen for Guix (www.gnu.org/software/guix) > and came across a number of failing tests with `make check` (19 of 24 in > autoopts failed). The failure in most cases happened on line 126 of > "autoopts/test/defs", which attempts to

[Autogen-users] Many tests failing due to value of LIBGUILE_PATH

2013-10-10 Thread Eric Bavier
I was working on packaging AutoGen for Guix (www.gnu.org/software/guix) and came across a number of failing tests with `make check` (19 of 24 in autoopts failed). The failure in most cases happened on line 126 of "autoopts/test/defs", which attempts to cd to ${LIBGUILE_PATH}/../bin. The failure oc