Hi, The instmany-python test is failing for me on Mac OS X 10.5.7. Looks like it is trying to install things into /Library/Python, and as I did not run make check as the superuser, can't.
Also, I wonder if it is worth checking for bsd''s 'jot' utility in these tests that use seq? Thanks, Peter -- Peter O'Gorman http://pogma.com FAIL: instmany-python.test (exit: 2) ==================================== /Volumes/Users/fink/src/fink.build/automake1.11-1.11-1/automake-1.11/tests:/Users/fink/var/lib/fink/path-prefix-g++-4.0:/Users/fink/bin:/Users/fink/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin instmany-python: running python -V Python 2.5.1 === Running test ./instmany-python.test ++ pwd /Volumes/Users/fink/src/fink.build/automake1.11-1.11-1/automake-1.11/tests/instmany-python.dir + set -e + limit=2500 + subdir=long_subdir_name_with_many_characters + nfiles=81 ++ i=1 ++ test 1 -le 81 ++ echo 1 [snip shell seq replacement] + for n in '$list' + cat + echo + echo + cd .. + aclocal-1.11 -Werror + autoconf + automake-1.11 --foreign -Werror -Wall --add-missing long_subdir_name_with_many_characters/Makefile.am:2: installing `./py-compile' ++ pwd + instdir=/Volumes/Users/fink/src/fink.build/automake1.11-1.11-1/automake-1.11/tests/instmany-python.dir/inst + mkdir build + cd build + ../configure --prefix=/Volumes/Users/fink/src/fink.build/automake1.11-1.11-1/automake-1.11/tests/instmany-python.dir/inst checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... ../install-sh -c -d checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking for python... /usr/bin/python checking for python version... 2.5 checking for python platform... darwin checking for python script directory... /Library/Python/2.5/site-packages checking for python extension module directory... /Library/Python/2.5/site-packages configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating Makefile config.status: creating myinstall config.status: creating long_subdir_name_with_many_characters/Makefile + make Making all in long_subdir_name_with_many_characters make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'. make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'. + make install Making install in long_subdir_name_with_many_characters make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'. test -z "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages" || ../../install-sh -c -d "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages" /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ../../long_subdir_name_with_many_characters/npython1.py ../../long_subdir_name_with_many_characters/npython2.py ../../long_subdir_name_with_many_characters/npython3.py ../../long_subdir_name_with_many_characters/npython4.py ../../long_subdir_name_with_many_characters/npython5.py ../../long_subdir_name_with_many_characters/npython6.py ../../long_subdir_name_with_many_characters/npython7.py ../../long_subdir_name_with_many_characters/npython8.py ../../long_subdir_name_with_many_characters/npython9.py ../../long_subdir_name_with_many_characters/npython10.py ../../long_subdir_name_with_many_characters/npython11.py ../../long_subdir_name_with_many_characters/npython12.py ../../long_subdir_name_with_many_characters/npython13.py ../../long_subdir_name_with_many_characters/npython14.py ../../long_subdir_name_with_many_characters/npython15.py ../../long_subdir_name_with_many_characters/npython16.py ../../long_subdir_name_with_many_characters/npython17.py ../../long_subdir_name_with_many_characters/npython18.py ../../long_subdir_name_with_many_characters/npython19.py ../../long_subdir_name_with_many_characters/npython20.py ../../long_subdir_name_with_many_characters/npython21.py ../../long_subdir_name_with_many_characters/npython22.py ../../long_subdir_name_with_many_characters/npython23.py ../../long_subdir_name_with_many_characters/npython24.py ../../long_subdir_name_with_many_characters/npython25.py ../../long_subdir_name_with_many_characters/npython26.py ../../long_subdir_name_with_many_characters/npython27.py ../../long_subdir_name_with_many_characters/npython28.py ../../long_subdir_name_with_many_characters/npython29.py ../../long_subdir_name_with_many_characters/npython30.py ../../long_subdir_name_with_many_characters/npython31.py ../../long_subdir_name_with_many_characters/npython32.py ../../long_subdir_name_with_many_characters/npython33.py ../../long_subdir_name_with_many_characters/npython34.py ../../long_subdir_name_with_many_characters/npython35.py ../../long_subdir_name_with_many_characters/npython36.py ../../long_subdir_name_with_many_characters/npython37.py ../../long_subdir_name_with_many_characters/npython38.py ../../long_subdir_name_with_many_characters/npython39.py ../../long_subdir_name_with_many_characters/npython40.py '/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/.' install: /Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/./npython1.py: Permission denied make[2]: *** [install-nobase_pythonPYTHON] Error 71 make[1]: *** [install-am] Error 2 make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 + exit_status=2 + cd /Volumes/Users/fink/src/fink.build/automake1.11-1.11-1/automake-1.11/tests + case $exit_status,$keep_testdirs in + test 0 '!=' 0 + echo ': exit 2' : exit 2 + exit 2