On the testdrive alphaev68-dec-osf5.1b, missing{,2,4}.test were failing
(with native make). Again, this was fixable by adding some $sleep.
But also it uncovered a buglet in the missing.test:
required=GNUmake
was set only after `./defs' was sourced. I don't know for sure why
missing.test and
On all HP-UX and Tru64 boxen I have access to, distdir.test fails like
this:
$ make dist # in VPATH build, which is part of the distcheck stage
| No suffix list.
| Make: Don't know how to make ./joe. Stop.
Removing the leading `./' from
EXTRA_DIST = ./joe [...]
fixes that on these hosts, so