Hi Richard - a friend (Nelson Beebe) ran the automake test suite on
numerous systems on the 1.17.90 pretest. There was a plethora of
failures, and they seem to related to the new stderr-prefix failure and
shell quoting. Maybe.
It seems that the prefixing happened in general? That tap output doesn't
make much sense to me at first blush, I'm afraid. Anyway, I'll append
one particular failure (on Debian12/x86 system), and send you
separately a tarball with full logs. (I can't attach it here because my
friend doesn't want all his system info floating around in public. It's
fine to show non-identified data.)
Or, briefly looking at the logs, I wonder if his incredibly complex
$HOME/config.site file could be interfering with the tests -- though it
never did before. Maybe we somehow have to disable that for automake
test. Hmm.
(Aside: looks like our "compatible" change to py-compile is broken
too. Everything's broken. Sigh.)
Help? I'll be mostly offline the next couple of days, but hope to look
at it all in more detail this weekend. Thanks,
Karl
Here is the list of all failures on his Debian 12/x86 system:
34 lines matching "^FAIL:"
11535:FAIL: t/instspc
14168:FAIL: t/instspc.tap 16 - ampersand in destdir
14541:FAIL: t/instspc.tap 19 - leftpar in builddir
14579:FAIL: t/instspc.tap 20 - leftpar in destdir
14628:FAIL: t/instspc.tap 21 - rightpar in builddir
14676:FAIL: t/instspc.tap 22 - rightpar in destdir
14801:FAIL: t/instspc.tap 23 - pipe in builddir
14902:FAIL: t/instspc.tap 24 - pipe in destdir
16959:FAIL: t/instspc.tap 37 - comma in builddir
17040:FAIL: t/instspc.tap 38 - comma in destdir
17472:FAIL: t/instspc.tap 41 - semicol in builddir
17573:FAIL: t/instspc.tap 42 - semicol in destdir
18001:FAIL: t/instspc.tap 45 - less in builddir
18122:FAIL: t/instspc.tap 46 - less in destdir
18227:FAIL: t/instspc.tap 47 - more in builddir
18300:FAIL: t/instspc.tap 48 - more in destdir
20029:FAIL: t/instspc.tap 59 - space in builddir
20128:FAIL: t/instspc.tap 60 - space in destdir
20232:FAIL: t/instspc.tap 61 - tab in builddir
20331:FAIL: t/instspc.tap 62 - tab in destdir
21630:FAIL: t/instspc.tap 72 - quadrigraph0 in destdir
21733:FAIL: t/instspc.tap 73 - quadrigraph1 in builddir
21831:FAIL: t/instspc.tap 74 - quadrigraph1 in destdir
21935:FAIL: t/instspc.tap 75 - quadrigraph2 in builddir
22033:FAIL: t/instspc.tap 76 - quadrigraph2 in destdir
22153:FAIL: t/instspc.tap 77 - quadrigraph3 in builddir
22261:FAIL: t/instspc.tap 78 - quadrigraph3 in destdir
22672:FAIL: t/instspc.tap 81 - a_b in builddir
22773:FAIL: t/instspc.tap 82 - a_b in destdir
22890:FAIL: t/instspc.tap 83 - a__b in builddir
23008:FAIL: t/instspc.tap 84 - a__b in destdir
26584:FAIL: t/nodef
26730:FAIL: t/nodef2
27924:FAIL: t/py-compile-usage
And here is what I see for one particular failure:
FAIL: t/instspc.tap 16 - ampersand in destdir
#[stderr]+ result_ 'not ok' -D '' -r '' -- 'ampersand in destdir'
#[stderr]+ set +x
#[stderr]+ cd /local/build/cc/automake-1.17.90/t/instspc.dir
#[stderr]+ not am_keeping_testdirs
#[stderr]+ am_keeping_testdirs
#[stderr]+ case $keep_testdirs in
#[stderr]+ return 1
#[stderr]+ test 'not ok' = ok
#[stderr]+ : For shells with busted 'set -e.'
#[stderr]+ for test_name in $test_names_list
#[stderr]+ eval 'test_string=${instspc__percent}'
#[stderr]++ test_string=%
#[stderr]+ test x% = x
#[stderr]+ mkdir ./%
#[stderr]+ case $test_string in
#[stderr]+ for where in build dest
#[stderr]+ case $where in
#[stderr]+ build=./%
#[stderr]+ dest=/local/build/cc/automake-1.17.90/t/instspc.dir/dest-percent
#[stderr]+ cd ./%
#[stderr]+ r=ok
#[stderr]+ ../configure --prefix /%-prefix
