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automake-1.11.4 test failures, powerpc-darwin8

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From: David Fang <fang <at> csl.cornell.edu>
To: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 11204 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#11204: automake-1.11.4 test failures, powerpc-darwin8
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:32:35 -0400 (EDT)

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> This looks suspicious:
>
>  FAIL: distcheck-override-infodir.test (exit: 2)
>  ===============================================
>
>  distcheck-override-infodir: running install-info --version
>  Debian install-info 1.10.21.  Copyright (C) 1994,1995
>  Ian Jackson.  This is free software; see the GNU General Public Licence
>  version 2 or later for copying conditions.  There is NO warranty.
>
> Why do you have Debian install-info installed on Mac OS X?  It is not used
> anymore even on Debian:
>
>  $ cat /etc/debian_version
>  wheezy/sid
>
>  $ install-info --version
>  This is not dpkg install-info anymore, but GNU install-info
>  See the man page for ginstall-info for command line arguments
>  install-info (GNU texinfo) 4.13
>
> and in fact Automake has stopped trying to cater to Debian install-info since
> the release 1.11.2.
>
> 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

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


% env AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR=no make recheck
FAIL: install-info-dir.test
FAIL: distcheck-override-infodir.test
PASS: instfail-info.test
PASS: txinfo3.test
PASS: txinfo13.test
PASS: txinfo16.test
PASS: txinfo18.test
PASS: txinfo19.test
PASS: txinfo22.test
PASS: txinfo23.test
PASS: txinfo24.test
PASS: txinfo26.test
PASS: txinfo25.test
PASS: txinfo28.test
PASS: version7.test
PASS: txinfo33.test
PASS: vtexi4.test
=====================================
2 of 17 tests failed
See tests/test-suite.log
Please report to bug-automake <at> gnu.org
=====================================
make[1]: *** [test-suite.log] Error 1
make: *** [recheck] Error 2

Log file attached.

Fang


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

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