Subject: bug#33819: automake-1.16.1 test failures on NetBSD

From: Mike Frysinger <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2022 22:42:40 -0500

On 24 Feb 2022 11:23, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> FAIL: t/distcheck-override-infodir
> FAIL: t/instdir-texi
> FAIL: t/silent-texi
> FAIL: t/txinfo-builddir
> FAIL: t/txinfo-clean
> FAIL: t/txinfo-info-in-srcdir
> FAIL: t/txinfo-include
> FAIL: t/txinfo-many-output-formats
> FAIL: t/txinfo-many-output-formats-vpath
> FAIL: t/txinfo-no-clutter
> FAIL: t/txinfo-override-texinfo-tex
> FAIL: t/txinfo-subdir-pr343
> FAIL: t/txinfo-vtexi4
> FAIL: t/txinfo-without-info-suffix
> FAIL: t/txinfo23
> FAIL: t/txinfo24
> FAIL: t/txinfo25
> FAIL: t/txinfo28
> FAIL: t/version7
> ...
> distcheck-override-infodir: running texi2dvi --version
> texi2dvi (GNU Texinfo 4.8) 1.34
> ...
> TEXINPUTS="../..:$TEXINPUTS"  MAKEINFO='/bin/sh '/disk/6/archive/foreign/automake-1.16.5/t/distcheck-override-infodir.dir/distcheck-override-infodir-1.0/missing' makeinfo   -I ../..'  texi2dvi  --build-dir=main.t2d -o main.dvi   ../../main.texi
> /usr/bin/texi2dvi: Can't use option `--output' with more than one argument.

your texinfo is old & known to be broken.  i thought i saw this recently, but
i can't find the bug/reference.  maybe it's been fixed in git.

> FAIL: t/objc-megademo
> + ./play >got   
> /usr/lib/libobjc.so.4: Trying to call undefined weak symbol `pthread_attr_init'

looks like your host's libobjc.so is broken.  i don't think this is something
we should try and deal with.

> FAIL: t/self-check-dir
> FAIL: t/self-check-dir.tap 1 - testdir has the expected path [unset am_create_testdir]
> FAIL: t/self-check-dir.tap 2 - fully pre-populated testdir [unset am_create_testdir]
> FAIL: t/self-check-dir.tap 3 - testdir has the expected path [am_create_testdir=empty]

not really sure what's going on with these.
-mike