Re: [GNU Autoconf 2.60] testsuite: 99 failed

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Stephen,

* Stephen Cartwright wrote on Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 10:10:39PM CEST:
> Encountered this problem on Alpha Tru64 5.1B system.

Thanks for the bug report.

> 99. torture.at:1021: testing ...
> ./torture.at:1025: automake --version || exit 77
> stderr:
> stdout:
> automake (GNU automake) 1.4

This test fails because it only finds an ancient Automake-1.4 installed
on the system; please consider installing the current version, which is
1.9.6.

In order to minimize feedback for Autoconf (I'm not sure if that's a
good thing in this case!  Warning against Automake-1.4 considered
beneficial), we could install something along the lines of the
(completely untested) patch below.  Thoughts?

Cheers,
Ralf

        * tests/torture.at (Unusual Automake input files): Skip
        Automake-1.4 which did not know versioning option yet.
        Reported by Stephen Cartwright <address@hidden>

Index: tests/torture.at
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/autoconf/autoconf/tests/torture.at,v
retrieving revision 1.68
diff -u -r1.68 torture.at
--- tests/torture.at    7 Jul 2006 20:22:15 -0000       1.68
+++ tests/torture.at    14 Aug 2006 20:39:24 -0000
@@ -1024,7 +1024,8 @@
 AT_KEYWORDS([autoreconf])
 
 # We use aclocal and automake via autoreconf.
-AT_CHECK([automake --version || exit 77], [], [ignore], [ignore])
+AT_CHECK([automake --version || exit 77], [], [stdout], [ignore])
+AT_CHECK([grep ' 1\.4' stdout && exit 77], [1], [ignore], [ignore])
 
 AT_DATA([configure.in],
 [[AC_INIT(GNU foo, 1.0)