On Thursday 20 October 2011, Jim Meyering wrote: > Without the patch below, I would consistently see this failure: > > FAIL: aclocal-print-acdir.test (exit: 1) > ======================================== > + set -e > ... > ++ aclocal-1.11a -Werror --print-ac-dir > + test /h/j/w/co/automake/m4/acdir = /h/j/w/co/automake/m4 > + exit_status=1 > + set +e > ... > > I haven't delved into it to see how this test could be succeeding for > anyone else, so the patch may well be wrong. > No your fix is right. The failure is probably the result of a botched merge of long(ish) time ago; I've bever bothered to look into it better, since the test has been extended and improved in the `testusuite-work' branch (where it also works meaningfully under "make installcheck"), making the failure disappear there.
Feel free to push the patch to master. Thanks, and sorry for the noise, Stefano
