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DejaGnu runtest not found of site.exp exists

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From: Robert Menteer <reetnem <at> mac.com>
To: bug-dejagnu <at> gnu.org
Subject: DejaGnu runtest not found of site.exp exists
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2020 10:54:50 -0500

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I have a Makefile created using the auto tools and it has a problem when making the ‘check’ target. The problem is the make file fails to verify the existence of runtest. The command used to test for the existence of runtest is:

	if /bin/bash -c "runtest --version" > /dev/null 2>&1; then

What I found by running runtest by hand is it fails if the file site.ext exists. 

parallels <at> parallels-Parallels-Virtual-Platform:~/Desktop/Parallels Shared Folders/FlDist/trunk/testsuite$ runtest --version
ERROR: tcl error sourcing /media/psf/FlDist/trunk/testsuite/site.exp.
wrong # args: should be "set varName ?newValue?"
    while executing
"set objdir /home/parallels/Desktop/Parallels Shared Folders/FlDist/trunk/testsuite"
    (file "/media/psf/FlDist/trunk/testsuite/site.exp" line 5)
    invoked from within
"source /media/psf/FlDist/trunk/testsuite/site.exp"
    ("uplevel" body line 1)
    invoked from within
"uplevel #0 source /media/psf/FlDist/trunk/testsuite/site.exp"
    invoked from within
"catch "uplevel #0 source $file""
parallels <at> parallels-Parallels-Virtual-Platform:~/Desktop/Parallels Shared Folders/FlDist/trunk/testsuite$ rm site.exp
parallels <at> parallels-Parallels-Virtual-Platform:~/Desktop/Parallels Shared Folders/FlDist/trunk/testsuite$ runtest --version
DejaGnu version	1.6.2
Expect version	5.45.4
Tcl version	8.6
parallels <at> parallels-Parallels-Virtual-Platform:~/Desktop/Parallels Shared Folders/FlDist/trunk/testsuite$ uname -a
Linux parallels-Parallels-Virtual-Platform 5.4.0-42-generic #46-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jul 10 00:24:02 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
parallels <at> parallels-Parallels-Virtual-Platform:~/Desktop/Parallels Shared Folders/FlDist/trunk/testsuite$ 

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Message #8 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jacob Bachmeyer <jcb62281 <at> gmail.com>
To: Robert Menteer <reetnem <at> mac.com>, 
 Robert Menteer via Bug-dejagnu <bug-dejagnu <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 44580-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#44580: DejaGnu runtest not found of site.exp exists
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2020 20:56:09 -0600

Robert Menteer via Bug-dejagnu via wrote:
> What I found by running runtest by hand is it fails if the file 
> site.ext exists.

Your site.exp file is invalid; this is a bug in Automake rather than a 
bug in DejaGnu.  The version of Automake that produced the Makefile.in 
that you are using mishandles filenames containing spaces.  Tcl requires 
a value containing spaces to be properly quoted in a "set" command, and 
Automake is producing a site.exp that does not contain those quotes for 
the objdir variable.

An immediate workaround is to run `sed -e '/^set [^ ]*dir [^"]/{s/dir 
/&"/;s/$/"/}' -i site.exp` (tested with GNU sed) to fix your site.exp 
file, or to avoid building in a directory where the absolute filename 
contains spaces.

Additionally, as of commit b53b22c29880f785ae5e9e1c72925d2583a4c76d 
(after 1.6.2 was released) DejaGnu no longer loads site.exp when invoked 
with the --version option.

Please try regenerating your Makefile.in with a newer Automake or report 
this as a bug in Automake if you are already using the latest version.

I am closing this report as NOTOURBUG.


-- Jacob

Message #16 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Robert Menteer <reetnem <at> mac.com>
To: jcb62281 <at> gmail.com
Cc: Robert Menteer via Bug-dejagnu <bug-dejagnu <at> gnu.org>,
 44580-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#44580: DejaGnu runtest not found of site.exp exists
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2020 08:35:01 -0500

Jacob,

Thank you for the quick response. You did a beautiful analysis of what failed, not only determining what was wrong with the site.ext file but the input that caused another build tool to generate an incorrect file. I laughed out when I read your ending: this is not a bug but we’re fixing it anyway.

> On Nov 11, 2020, at 9:56 PM, Jacob Bachmeyer <jcb62281 <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Robert Menteer via Bug-dejagnu via wrote:
>> What I found by running runtest by hand is it fails if the file site.ext exists.
> 
> Your site.exp file is invalid; this is a bug in Automake rather than a bug in DejaGnu.  The version of Automake that produced the Makefile.in that you are using mishandles filenames containing spaces.  Tcl requires a value containing spaces to be properly quoted in a "set" command, and Automake is producing a site.exp that does not contain those quotes for the objdir variable.
> 
> An immediate workaround is to run `sed -e '/^set [^ ]*dir [^"]/{s/dir /&"/;s/$/"/}' -i site.exp` (tested with GNU sed) to fix your site.exp file, or to avoid building in a directory where the absolute filename contains spaces.
> 
> Additionally, as of commit b53b22c29880f785ae5e9e1c72925d2583a4c76d (after 1.6.2 was released) DejaGnu no longer loads site.exp when invoked with the --version option.
> 
> Please try regenerating your Makefile.in with a newer Automake or report this as a bug in Automake if you are already using the latest version.
> 
> I am closing this report as NOTOURBUG.
> 
> 
> -- Jacob

Thanks again
Bob

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