Ok, I'll try to figure out why this test passes on 1.16.5 but not on HEAD with the same patch.

On Fri, Jan 13, 2023 at 9:47 AM Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote:
On 13 Jan 2023 09:14, Frederic Berat wrote:
> I made one more build with a different patchset list, could it be that the
> failure you encounter is with "t/subobj.sh" ?

to be clear, i applied this patch only to current git master.  i didn't try
including anything else.  with that in mind, the failure is not in that, but
in t/depcomp-auto.tap.
FAIL: t/depcomp-auto
FAIL: t/depcomp-auto.tap 14 - [simple VPATH] make distclean
FAIL: t/depcomp-auto.tap 21 - [long VPATH] make distclean
FAIL: t/depcomp-auto.tap 28 - [absolute VPATH] make distclean

ERROR: files left in build directory after distclean:
./.deps/foo.Tpo
make: *** [Makefile:750: distcleancheck] Error 1
-mike