Subject: automake-1.12 make check: FAIL:2

From: Tru Huynh <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2012 15:10:29 +0100

Hello,

automake 1.12 fails 2 tests (autoconf version 2.69 used).
[tru@liberte automake-1.11.6]$ rpm -q kernel gcc
kernel-2.6.18-308.16.1.el5.x86_64
gcc-4.1.2-52.el5_8.1.x86_64
[tru@liberte automake-1.12]$  gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
Target: x86_64-redhat-linux
Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --enable-checking=release --with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit --disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-libgcj-multifile --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,obj-c++,java,fortran,ada --enable-java-awt=gtk --disable-dssi --disable-plugin --with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.4.2-gcj-1.4.2.0/jre --with-cpu=generic --host=x86_64-redhat-linux
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-52)
[tru@liberte automake-1.12]$ type autoconf
autoconf is /c5/shared/autoconf/2.69/bin/autoconf
[tru@liberte automake-1.12]$ autoconf -V
autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.69
Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+/Autoconf: GNU GPL version 3 or later
<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>, <http://gnu.org/licenses/exceptions.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by David J. MacKenzie and Akim Demaille.
...

tar xzvf ~/sources/automake-1.12.tar.gz 
cd automake-1.12/
./configure --prefix=/c5/shared/automake/1.12
make && make install && make check

============================================================================
Testsuite summary for GNU Automake 1.12
============================================================================
# TOTAL: 2721
# PASS:  2474
# SKIP:  203
# XFAIL: 42
# FAIL:  2
# XPASS: 0
# ERROR: 0
============================================================================
See ./test-suite.log
Please report to [email-masked]
============================================================================

Best regards,

Tru
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