Subject: bug#11204: automake-1.11.4 test failures, powerpc-darwin8

From: David Fang <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 04:33:09 -0400 (EDT)

>>> and in fact Automake has stopped trying to cater to Debian install-info since
>>> the release 1.11.2.
>>>
>> So I have an install-info from dpkg, which is used by fink, which
>> installs packages to another prefix (default: /sw):
>>
>> fang% which install-info
>> /sw/sbin/install-info
>> fang% dpkg -S `which install-info`
>> dpkg: /sw/sbin/install-info
>>
> What happens if you use GNU info instead?  Do the testsuite failures
> persist?

Already using GNU info (previous report):

fang% ls -l `which info`
-rwxr-xr-x   1 fang  admin  534832 Nov 11  2008 /sw/bin/info*
fang% dpkg -S /sw/bin/info
texinfo: /sw/bin/info
fang% info --version
info (GNU texinfo) 4.13

>>> What happens if you re-run the failed tests after defining 'AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR'
>>> to "no" in the environment?  Like this:
>>>
>>>  $ cd tests && AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR=no make -jN recheck
>>
>> % env AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR=no make recheck
>> FAIL: install-info-dir.test
>> FAIL: distcheck-override-infodir.test
>>
> These are weaknesses in the testsuite, which are fixed by the attached
> patch.  Thanks for having found them.

And thanks for looking into this issue!

Fang

-- 
David Fang
http://www.csl.cornell.edu/~fang/