Testsuite failures on AIX 5.3 (was: testsuite results from master)

[Stefano Lattarini]

On Sunday 14 November 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Hello Stefano,
> 
> I think it is time to reevaluate some of the work that has been done in
> the last few weeks.  I'd like to ask you to postpone pushes of pending
> stuff that has a clock ticking, and look at the lots of new failures
> that a testsuite run shows on a few hosts; you can find them in some
> minutes on <http://autobuild.josefsson.org/automake/>.

Log:
 <http://autobuild.josefsson.org/automake/log-201011141902214780000.txt>

Minimal system information:
 configure: autobuild project... GNU Automake
 configure: autobuild revision... v1.11-225-gcdd3cf3
 configure: autobuild hostname... yawara
 configure: autobuild mode... default
 configure: autobuild timestamp... 20111412T185841Z
 running CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/sh /bin/sh ../automake/configure -C 
--prefix=/tmp/local/powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0
 checking build system type... powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0

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 > FAIL: ansi.test (exit: 2)
 > =========================
 >
 > /tmp/am/build-powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0/tests:/tmp/local/powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0/bin:/tmp/bin
 > :/usr/vac/bin:/usr/vacpp/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin/X11:/etc:/usr/etc
 > + pwd
 > /tmp/am/build-powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0/tests/ansi.dir
 > + set -e
 > + cat
 > + 1> Makefile.am 0< /tmp/sh663580.2
 > + cat
 > + 1>> configure.in 0< /tmp/sh663580.4
 > + :
 > + 1> ansi2knr.c
 > + :
 > + 1> ansi2knr.1
 > + aclocal-1.11a -Werror
 > + automake-1.11a --foreign -Werror -Wall
 > + /bin/grep -F -v @SET_MAKE@ Makefile.in
 > + 1> Makefile.sed
 > + make -f Makefile.sed SHELL=/bin/sh test1
 >       echo ' @top_srcdir@/configure.in   @top_srcdir@/aclocal.m4 
 > @srcdir@/Makefile.am  \
 >              @srcdir@/Makefile.in @top_srcdir@/configure ansi2knr.1  
 > ansi2knr.c \
 >              depcomp install-sh missing    ' | grep ' ansi2knr\.c '
 > @SHELL@: not found
 > make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 1.
 > Stop.
 > + exit_status=2
IMHO this is a spurious failure due to the old hackish check:
  $FGREP -v @SET_MAKE@ Makefile.in > Makefile.sed
  $MAKE -f Makefile.sed SHELL=$SHELL test1
retained from older versions of ansi.test; since this check is superseded
by the later ones:
  $AUTOCONF
  ./configure
  $MAKE test1
my suggested fix is to just drop the hackish check.

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 > FAIL: colon5.test (exit: 2)
 > FAIL: colon6.test (exit: 2)

These tests fail for the same resons of ansi.test; I suggest to drop the
older hackish checks and do more proper checks with autoconf, ./configure
and make.  BTW, there is a pending patch of mine aimed at making the
`colon*.test' tests more "semantic"; see:
 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-09/msg00110.html>

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 > FAIL: fn99.test (exit: 2)
 > FAIL: fn99subdir.test (exit: 2)

I'm pretty sure these tests haven't been affected by my (or yours) latest
patches: the failure is pre-existent IMO.  Also, the tests fails due to a
segmentation fault in the (make-spawned) shell, so the failures are better
investigated by someone having direct access to the system in question.

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Regards,
  Stefano