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> Akim, I checked today and found out that there have been updates to the
> autoconf cvs. When will the cvs-commit mailing list move to the new site so
> we can get notified immediately?
I just don't know. The subversions team, AFAIK, is working on it, but
there is nothing yet running.
> Anyway, I ran the same tests on my Solaris 7 box, and only two things failed
> (debug-78 and -97) both b/c of the srcdir!=builddir problem:
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> configure: error: cannot find install-sh or install.sh in . ./.. ./../..
I'll try to see how it can be properly fixed. But this is not the worst
problem we have with the test suite currently: the worst problem is
that the test suite does not check for AC_PROG_CC when checking things
which require some compilation, hence it relies on the default CC=cc,
which is dead wrong on some platform (typically some Solaris with no
cc, but a gcc).
I have not fixed it because I'm not sure the test suite should be fixed,
Autoconf should provide the test for a compiler when such tests are needed,
but this is tied with the AC_LANG chain, which, IMHO, should be completely
rethought, so for the time being, I prefer to still have the test suite
fail. On the platforms where cc is broken, make check CC=gcc is needed.
Akim
