Re: Build and test failures with Autoconf 2.70

2020-12-29 Thread Zack Weinberg
Karl Berry wrote: > Zack Weinberg wrote: >> They all appear to be cases of autoconf and/or aclocal >> getting run when the test suite does not expect them to be run. I am >> stumped as to why > > In short: because the 2.70 autom4te decided not to update configure. > > I don't know why not, but I

Re: Build and test failures with Autoconf 2.70

2020-12-19 Thread Karl Berry
They all appear to be cases of autoconf and/or aclocal getting run when the test suite does not expect them to be run. I am stumped as to why In short: because the 2.70 autom4te decided not to update configure. I don't know why not, but I have a guess: maybe the new autom4te ignores

Re: Build and test failures with Autoconf 2.70

2020-12-15 Thread Karl Berry
FAIL: t/distcheck-missing-m4.sh FAIL: t/distcheck-outdated-m4.sh FAIL: t/libobj-basic.sh FAIL: t/remake-not-after-make-dist.sh FAIL: t/vala-non-recursive-setup.sh Whoops, I see the vala test is the only one you didn't also get, the rest are duplicates. Sorry for the noise.

Re: Build and test failures with Autoconf 2.70

2020-12-15 Thread Karl Berry
The attached patch fixes two of the problems: Thanks, I pushed that. There are still four testsuite failures on my dev box, After applying your patch, running make -j12 check against autoconf 2.70, I get those failures and several more (as in your case, they don't appear with 2.69): FA