Hi Peter, thanks for the testing. On 05/02/2012 03:19 PM, Peter Breitenlohner wrote: > On Tue, 1 May 2012, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > >> From: Peter Breitenlohner <p...@mppmu.mpg.de> >> >> * t/objcxx-basic.sh: New test. > > Hi Stefano, > > I have just build the automake git experimental/objc++ branch > (from a freshly checked out tree) and found three FAILs: > t/objc-basic.sh > t/objcxx-basic.sh > t/suffix.sh > > In all three cases the reason seems to be that the sequence > $ACLOCAL > $AUTOMAKE > echo <some thing> >> configure.ac > $ACLOCAL --force > doesn't work as expected. When autom4te.cache is removed after modifying > configure.ac all three test succeed. > Your diagnosis and proposed solutions are right. I've squashed in the fix into 't/objc-basic.sh' and 't/objcxx-basic.sh', and fixed 't/suffix.sh' on main with the attached patch. I plan to merge the 'objc++-support' branch into 'maint' by tomorrow if there are no more errors.
Regards, Stefano
>From b78cb35dcad438908c652a80c64bf9732f7251f6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 Message-Id: <b78cb35dcad438908c652a80c64bf9732f7251f6.1335973824.git.stefano.lattar...@gmail.com> From: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattar...@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 17:47:56 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] tests: fix spurious failure due to autom4te caching Reported by eter Breitenlohner : <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2012-05/msg00045.html> * t/suffix.sh: Remove stale autom4te.cache directories, to prevent racy, spurious failures (using 'aclocal --force' was not enough, since the cache was still picked up by the following automake call). Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattar...@gmail.com> --- t/suffix.sh | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/t/suffix.sh b/t/suffix.sh index f9944cb..600aedf 100755 --- a/t/suffix.sh +++ b/t/suffix.sh @@ -32,6 +32,8 @@ END for use_arlib in false :; do + rm -rf autom4te*.cache + if $use_arlib; then am_warns= echo AM_PROG_AR >> configure.ac @@ -40,7 +42,7 @@ for use_arlib in false :; do am_warns=-Wno-extra-portability fi - $ACLOCAL --force + $ACLOCAL $AUTOMAKE $am_warns -i grep '^ *\.c' Makefile.in # For debugging. -- 1.7.9.5
