Re: Testsuite failures on Tru64 OSF 5.1

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 11:00:16PM CET:
>  <http://autobuild.josefsson.org/automake/log-201011141902490189000.txt>

> > FAIL: backcompat5.test (exit: 1)
> > ================================
> >
> [CUT]
> > find ../foo-1.0 -print ## useful for debugging
> > find: missing conjunction
> > *** Exit 1
> > Stop.
> Seems like a limitation (bug) of the find utility; what I'd do is
> replacing the above find command simply with:
>   find ../foo-1.0
> WDYT?

I think the comment is taken as part of the command.  There shouldn't be
any comments in recipe commands.

> > FAIL: instspc-*-build.test (exit: 1)
> > FAIL: instspc-*-install.test (exit: 1)
> Re-running the tests with `/bin/ksh -x' might really help here.  No idea
> what might have ben gone wrong otherwise.  And yes, this is clearly a bug
> introduced by my recent "instspc.test refactoring" patch.

Not sure.  instspc.test was skipped on most of my test systems because I
did not have gcc in $PATH (deliberately, but for other reasons).

How come the verbose output didn't land in test-suite.log though?

Rest comes later.

Cheers,
Ralf