bug#41585: closed (Default value of "libdir" is incorrect)

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> Default value of "libdir" is incorrect
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> I have finally replicated an issue (where stats.exp mysteriously failed 
> on his machine but passes on mine) Rob Savoye had mentioned in private 
> emails a few times and it has an impressively bizarre actual trigger:  
> the inner runtest(1) invocations from testsuite/runtest.main/stats.exp 
> fail to start unless the DejaGnu sources were checked out into a 
> directory literally named 'dejagnu' (all lowercase, without the 
> quotes).  The inner runtest(1) invocations for the options.exp tests are 
> not affected because they do not actually run any tests and options.exp 
> matches the output it checks before runtest(1) prepares to run tests.
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> The problem is that the inner testsuite used for stats.exp is very 
> minimal and this causes DejaGnu to search "libdir" (which is set 
> incorrectly in runtest.exp) for a default configuration in 
> runtest.exp:load_tool_target_config.  The runtest.exp file is located in 
> the correct libdir, whether in a source checkout or installed, but the 
> code in runtest.exp currently expects runtext.exp to be 
> LPREFIX/SOMETHING/runtest.exp and sets libdir to LPREFIX/dejagnu.  If 
> the sources are checked out in a 'dejagnu' directory, this happens to 
> work.  If DejaGnu is installed, this happens to work (runtest.exp is 
> placed in PREFIX/share/dejagnu by default).  If the sources are in any 
> other directory, this does not work.
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> Report filed to get a bug number to go with the fix.  Thanks to Rob 
> Savoye for mentioning the test failures.
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> -- Jacob
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> Re: bug#41585: Patch submitted on temporary branch PR41585
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> Rob Savoye wrote:
> > That fixed stats.exp.
> That resolves the problem, closing bug report.
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> -- Jacob
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