Hi Karl, Am 21.09.2021 um 22:32 schrieb Karl Berry <k...@freefriends.org>: > > Redoing the tests with 1.16g I now have 9 failed tests, the > testsuite.log is attached. > > Thanks much for giving it a whirl right away. > But are those failures anything new? > > FAIL: t/fn99subdir > FAIL: t/lex-clean-cxx > FAIL: t/lex-depend-cxx > FAIL: t/test-extensions-empty > FAIL: t/subpkg > FAIL: t/subpkg2 > FAIL: t/subpkg3 > FAIL: t/subpkg-yacc > FAIL: t/vala-mix2 > > They don't look like anything that was touched in these small changes > since 1.16.4; the only real purpose for the release is to get back to > the historical Python directory behavior. > > At least the lex/yacc stuff hasn't worked with Solaris tools for quite a > while. There are a number of open bugs relating to Solaris at > https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/pkgreport.cgi?package=automake#_0_4_3 > but no one has come forward to look into them. (They will never make it > to the top of my list to work on, sorry to say.)
I see, this is probably true. Then the new release is at least as good as the previous one ;-) Best regards — Dago -- "You don't become great by trying to be great, you become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process." - xkcd #896
