Automake 1.12 "make check" reported only one FAIL, which i traced to a strange value for var 'd' in t/remake11.sh, leaking in from the environment. You can probably guess its value from this test-suite.log excerpt:
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Anyway, here's the trivial patch:
diff -u t/remake11.sh\~ t/remake11.sh --- t/remake11.sh~ 2012-04-21 16:38:05.000000000 +0200 +++ t/remake11.sh 2012-04-26 11:31:18.000000000 +0200 @@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ echo "@FOO@" > bar.in echo "AC_CONFIG_FILES([bar])" >> configure.ac +unset d for i in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9; do d=${d+"$d/"}sub$i echo "SUBDIRS = sub$i" > Makefile.am
and a suitable ChangeLog entry: tests: unset local var to prevent env influence * t/remake11.sh: Unset 'd' before first use. Probably the entire suite should be audited for this class of bug. Anyway, now i can happily move on to "make install"...