Re: bug#8168: macros directory not created automatically

On Monday 14 March 2011, Stefano Lattarini wrote: [dropping automake list, adding automake-patches] References: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2011-03/msg0.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-automake/2011-03/msg4.html -*-*- Hello Javier and all

Re: bug#7873: Automake should support adding to DejaGnu site.exp

Reference: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2011-02/msg0.html Hello Rainer and all automakers. On Tuesday 01 February 2011, Stefano Lattarini wrote: On Thursday 20 January 2011, Rainer Orth wrote: Currently, Automake doesn't support adding package-specific content to

Re: [PATCH] {maint} tests: new subroutines for test skipping/failing

On Monday 14 March 2011, Stefano Lattarini wrote: Hello Ralf and all automakers. Reference: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2011-01/msg00296.html Whole original thread: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2011-01/msg00192.html which stemmed from:

Re: [PATCH] {maint} Warnings about primary/prefix mismatch fixed and extended.

References: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2011-01/msg00304.html http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=7647 Ping^2? I will push in 72 hours if there are no objections. Regards, Stefano

[PATCH] {maint} tests: improve tests on maintainer-clean target

Hello automakers. While looking at the test aclocal6.test (during the attemp of tackling http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=8365) I noticed this comment: # Make sure maintainer-clean works in VPATH builds. # (This is unrelated to the rest of this test.) Having two very unrelated

Re: bug#8365: 3 of 657 tests failed

Reference: http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=8365 Hi Sam, and thanks for the report. FAIL: aclocal6.test (exit: 1) = /home/sds/src/automake-1.11.1/tests:/home/sds/src/top/bin:/usr/lib6

Re: bug#8365: 3 of 657 tests failed

And the diagnosis for the failure of subdir5.test seems very similar. (In fact, it would have been much simpler to start by analyzing this failure, since it is a much simplified version of the aclocal6.test failure; but shame on me, I just proceded in alphabetical order w.r.t. the test names!)

Re: bug#8365: 3 of 657 tests failed

Hi Stefano, * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 06:47:20PM CEST: --- a/tests/aclocal6.test +++ b/tests/aclocal6.test @@ -57,6 +57,8 @@ cd build ../configure $MAKE +# Modified configure dependencies must be newer than config.status. +$sleep # Update an aclocal.m4

Re: bug#8365: 3 of 657 tests failed

* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 06:59:07PM CEST: * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 06:47:20PM CEST: --- a/tests/subdir5.test +++ b/tests/subdir5.test @@ -67,6 +67,8 @@ $MAKE # does it in the other way: it updates confiles.m4 (which is m4_included # by

Re: bug#8365: 3 of 657 tests failed

On Wednesday 30 March 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Hi Stefano, * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 06:47:20PM CEST: --- a/tests/aclocal6.test +++ b/tests/aclocal6.test @@ -57,6 +57,8 @@ cd build ../configure $MAKE +# Modified configure dependencies must be

Re: [PATCH] {maint} tests: improve tests on maintainer-clean target

* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 05:47:44PM CEST: So I've seized this opportunity to do some minor refactoring and extending in the tests for the maintainer-clean target. The resulting simple patch (for maint) is attached. A quick grep maintainer-clean *.test should show

Re: bug#8365: 3 of 657 tests failed

* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 06:10:23PM CEST: Now, why is configure not re-run? Here is my (longish) tentative explanation, step by step. In what follows, I'll use the abbraviation `TS(f)' to indicate the timestamp (i.e. last modification time) of the file `f'. 01.