missing*.test failures on Tru64; 'required=' lines

2006-05-08 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
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

distdir.test failures: VPATH and subdirs

2006-05-08 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
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