Re: Test log

[Zack Weinberg]

On Fri, Sep 16, 2022, at 8:41 AM, Malte Lindestam wrote:
> I'm trying to install autoconf and was instructed to send this.
>
> I'm on a macbook pro, m1 pro. I don't really know what I'm doing :(

The first concrete failure in the log file is due to this error:

+/Users/malteli/Code 
installs/autoconf-2.71/tests/testsuite.dir/at-groups/227/test-source: line 150: 
/Users/malteli/Code: No such file or directory

This is a known, long-standing limitation in all three of Autoconf, Automake, 
and GNU make.  The absolute pathname of the source directory needs to not 
contain any spaces or other special characters.

Some of the other failures are probably due to the same issue, and others are 
due to a bug that has been fixed in the development sources.  We should 
probably put out a 2.72 but I doubt I will have time to do that until December 
(and there are some other changes that we ought to get in).

I recommend that you do the following:

- Rename your "Code installs" directory to "Code-installs" or something like 
that.
- Rebuild autoconf 2.71 from scratch.
- You _should_ then see only these testsuite failures:

509. acheaders.at:9: 509. AC_CHECK_HEADER_STDBOOL (acheaders.at:9): FAILED 
(acheaders.at:9)
514. acheaders.at:14: 514. AC_HEADER_STDBOOL (acheaders.at:14): FAILED 
(acheaders.at:14)

These are due to the bug I mentioned.  It is a relatively minor bug and you can 
probably just live with it.

zw