I am maintaining my copy of automake in a subversion vendor branch. I have encountered a problem that is very difficult for me to diagnose. The copy in subversion will not build on Solaris. The tarball will. And there seems to be no discernible difference between the two versions with respect to files. If I compare the version I have from Subversion from the stock automake-1.9.6 tarball, they are identical from a diff standpoint and md5sums all checkout. The only difference I can find are the permissions on two files:
automake/m4/amversion.m4: -rw-r--r-- 1 root other 872 Feb 1 09:04 automake/m4/amversion.m4 -r--r--r-- 1 root other 872 Jul 10 2005 automake-1.9.6/m4/amversion.m4 automake/lib/config.guess: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root other 43K Feb 1 09:04 automake/lib/config.guess -rwxr-xr-- 1 root other 43K Jul 10 2005 automake-1.9.6/lib/config.guess All other files are identical. Both versions configure identically, and have identical config.log files. The version taken from subversion fails to build with the following error: ---------------------------------> [EMAIL PROTECTED] automake $ ./configure checking build system type... i386-pc-solaris2.10 checking for a BSD-compatible install... /opt/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for gawk... no checking for mawk... no checking for nawk... nawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking for perl... /opt/bin/perl checking for tex... no checking whether autoconf is installed... yes checking whether autoconf works... yes checking whether autoconf is recent enough... yes checking whether ln works... yes checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/sfw/bin/ggrep checking for egrep... /usr/sfw/bin/ggrep -E checking for fgrep... /usr/sfw/bin/ggrep -F configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating Makefile config.status: creating doc/Makefile config.status: creating lib/Automake/Makefile config.status: creating lib/Automake/tests/Makefile config.status: creating lib/Makefile config.status: creating lib/am/Makefile config.status: creating m4/Makefile config.status: creating tests/Makefile config.status: creating tests/defs config.status: creating tests/aclocal-1.9 config.status: creating tests/automake-1.9 [EMAIL PROTECTED] automake $ make cd . && perllibdir=/home/owensmk/data/code/vendor/ports/automake"/lib:./lib" /home/owensmk/data/code/vendor/ports/automake/automake --libdir=lib --gnu /bin/bash: /home/owensmk/data/code/vendor/ports/automake/automake: No such file or directory make: *** [Makefile.in] Error 1 <--------------------------------- I noticed that the automake file is not created, nor are other files in lib/Automake, such as Config.pm. This problem does not occur on Linux -- the subversion checkout builds fine. So, to recap, there seems to be no difference between the contents of the tarball or the version taken from subversion, yet the latter will not build on Solaris, but will build on Linux. The tarball builds fine everywhere. Can someone please give me some direction on how to figure out what's going on, or not working? What tests should I run? It would seem that subversion has changed something in its copy, I just can't figure out what. -- Mike
