Re: [PATCHES] {maint} honour configure-time AUTOCONF and AUTOM4TE (was: Re: make check failures)

2011-05-29 Thread Graham Reitz
Awesome. Thanks Stefano. I will try it this morning (CST) and report back. Graham Sent from my iPhone On May 29, 2011, at 5:51 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > [Adding automake-patches] > > On Saturday 28 May 2011, Graham Reitz wrote: >> Hi Stefano, >> >> Di

Re: make check failures

2011-05-24 Thread Graham Reitz
ts. Kindly, graham On May 24, 2011, at 12:14 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > On Tuesday 24 May 2011, Graham Reitz wrote: >>> Did you copy-paste that line? >> >> Yea, copy/paste error when I manually removed the full path. >> >>> Could yo

Re: make check failures

2011-05-24 Thread Graham Reitz
[listhelper note: At 1.0M the original message was very large for the mailing lists. I gzip'd it to 33K and re-sent it. --Bob Proulx] > Did you copy-paste that line? Yea, copy/paste error when I manually removed the full path. > Could you please post the resulting `test-suite.log'? It's hard

make check failures

2011-05-23 Thread Graham Reitz
After a successful build, make check yields: = 628 of 650 tests failed (79 tests were not run) See tests/test-suite.log Please report to bug-autom...@gnu.org = make[3]: *** [test-suite.log] Error 1 make[2]: *** [check-TESTS] E

Re: How to use alternative autoconf than what is located in /usr/local/bin (for automake compile)?

2011-05-23 Thread Graham Reitz
Perfect. Thanks for the help and fast response! I have two good solutions to work from. Kindly, Graham On May 23, 2011, at 8:48 PM, Daniel Herring wrote: > On Mon, 23 May 2011, Daniel Herring wrote: > >> FYI, when I install a new version of the autotools, I do something like >> >> # PATH=/

Re: How to use alternative autoconf than what is located in /usr/local/bin (for automake compile)?

2011-05-23 Thread Graham Reitz
hamreitz$ automake --version automake (GNU automake) 1.10 Written by Tom Tromey and Alexandre Duret-Lutz . grahamreitz$ autoconf --version autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.61 Written by David J. MacKenzie and Akim Demaille. Thanks, g On May 23, 2011, at 3:12 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > On Monda

How to use alternative autoconf than what is located in /usr/local/bin (for automake compile)?

2011-05-23 Thread Graham Reitz
Is their a configure switch to indicate that an alternative autoconf should be used, rather than defaulting to the autoconf located in /usr/local/bin? With other gnu build deps there is often a --with-*dep=$path_to_dep. Is there an equivalent when building automake from source? Host platform: