On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 08:27:28PM +0100, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> I've done several fixes to the Automake testsuite since 1.12 was released;
> could you please try with the last released version (1.12.4) and see if
> these issues persist?

sure:

tar xzvf ~/sources/automake-1.12.4.tar.gz 
cd automake-1.12.4/
./configure --prefix=/c5/shared/automake/1.12.4
make && make install && make check
....
============================================================================
Testsuite summary for GNU Automake 1.12.4
============================================================================
# TOTAL: 2633
# PASS:  2380
# SKIP:  211
# XFAIL: 40
# FAIL:  2
# XPASS: 0
# ERROR: 0
============================================================================
See ./test-suite.log
Please report to bug-automake@gnu.org
============================================================================

In 1.12 the errors were:
FAIL: t/distcheck-override-infodir
FAIL: t/help2

One of the errors changed for 1.12.4:
FAIL: t/help2
FAIL: t/lex-header

I am attaching the full test-suite.log config.status config.log

Cheers,

Tru
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