I'm not sure what the meaning of these failures is. I'm getting similar results trying to build lib tool: The 'make' completes, but 'make check' creates failures. ============================================================================ Testsuite summary for GNU Automake 1.14 ============================================================================ # TOTAL: 2803 # PASS: 2615 # SKIP: 127 # XFAIL: 41 # FAIL: 20 # XPASS: 0 # ERROR: 0 ============================================================================ See ./test-suite.log Please report to bug-automake@gnu.org ============================================================================ Carl.