GNU bug report logs - #7833
automake uses two different values for DejaGNU srcdir

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Package: automake;

Reported by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant <at> google.com>

Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 22:05:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Done: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #41 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Peter Breitenlohner <peb <at> mppmu.mpg.de>
To: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues <at> gmx.de>
Cc: 7833 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, owner <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
	Ian Lance Taylor <iant <at> google.com>, bug-automake <at> gnu.org,
	automake-patches <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#7833: automake uses two different values for DejaGNU
 srcdir
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 16:22:32 +0100 (CET)

On Fri, 14 Jan 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:

> Through testing I found out again that DejaGNU does not cope with white
> space in absolute directory names anyway, regardless of srcdir being
> relative or absolute.  That obviates my first point.  Remains only the
> fairly minor src+build-tree relocatability point.

Hi Ralf,

I remember a problem with gcc's 'make check' that could be related.  Some
tests failed when `pwd -L` was different from `pwd -P`, presumably due to
the two different srcdir's.

I could avoid this problem by first doing 'cd `pwd -P`'.

Regards
Peter Breitenlohner <peb <at> mppmu.mpg.de>
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