Re: Patch 2.7.6 and deep-directories failed test

[Andreas Grünbacher]

Am Do., 7. Jan. 2021 um 23:17 Uhr schrieb Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com>:
> On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 4:57 PM Andreas Grünbacher <agruen@gnu.org> wrote:
> > ...
> > > > That again doesn't reproduce for me (on Fedora 32). Did you try a
> > > > fresh checkout of the patch git repository? Are you possibly on a
> > > > different version of gnulib (should be
> > > > 48e8cffee6a67859119e7df9dc53c8f775daba89)?
> > >
> > > I believe Gnulib is the tip of master. I did not do anything special
> > > with Gnulib. Bootstrap fetched Gnulib for me.
> >
> > If the bootstrap script did the gnulib checkout for you, you should
> > end up with the matching version of gnulib.
>
> OK, Ubuntu was not able to compile master. Fedora 33 was able to compile 
> master.

I don't have Ubuntu, so I can't easily check what's going wrong there.
I'm getting the same result with Fedora 33 here, though.

> Fedora 33 patch master also failed deep-directories.

Not here, interestingly. I wonder what the difference in our setups is.

> Running the test
> manually is shown below. This error was present regardless of where I
> ran the tests from:
>
> tests$ ./deep-directories
> ./deep-directories: line 7: /test-lib.sh: No such file or directory
> ./deep-directories: line 9: require: command not found
> ./deep-directories: line 10: use_local_patch: command not found
> ./deep-directories: line 11: use_tmpdir: command not found
> ./deep-directories: line 26: check: command not found
>
> $ ./tests/deep-directories
> ./tests/deep-directories: line 7: /test-lib.sh: No such file or directory
> ./tests/deep-directories: line 9: require: command not found
> ./tests/deep-directories: line 10: use_local_patch: command not found
> ./tests/deep-directories: line 11: use_tmpdir: command not found
> ./tests/deep-directories: line 26: check: command not found
>
> patch-master$ find . -name test-libs.sh
> patch-master$

You can run the test manually as follows:

  srcdir=tests abs_top_builddir=$PWD tests/deep-directories

Andreas