Clearly this is a cross platform failure which is the same on Solaris sparc as it is on Debian ppc64.
## ------------- ## ## Test results. ## ## ------------- ## ERROR: 494 tests were run, 6 failed (4 expected failures). 9 tests were skipped. ## -------------------------- ## ## testsuite.log was created. ## ## -------------------------- ## Please send `tests/testsuite.log' and all information you think might help: To: <bug-autoconf@gnu.org> Subject: [GNU Autoconf 2.69] testsuite: 38 503 failed You may investigate any problem if you feel able to do so, in which case the test suite provides a good starting point. Its output may be found below `tests/testsuite.dir'. gmake[3]: *** [Makefile:596: check-local] Error 1gmake[3]: Leaving directory '/usr/local/build/autoconf-2.69_linux_4.15.0-2-powerpc64_ppc64.001/tests'
gmake[2]: *** [Makefile:411: check-am] Error 2gmake[2]: Leaving directory '/usr/local/build/autoconf-2.69_linux_4.15.0-2-powerpc64_ppc64.001/tests'
gmake[1]: *** [Makefile:357: check-recursive] Error 1gmake[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/local/build/autoconf-2.69_linux_4.15.0-2-powerpc64_ppc64.001'
gmake: *** [Makefile:665: check] Error 2 nix$ pwd /usr/local/build/autoconf-2.69_linux_4.15.0-2-powerpc64_ppc64.001 See attached testsuite log. Dennis
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