On Saturday 16 April 2011, Jim Meyering wrote: > Stefano Lattarini wrote: > ... > >> FAIL: self-check-dir.test (exit: 1) > >> =================================== > ... > >> FAIL: self-check-me.test (exit: 1) > >> ================================== > ... > > > These failures are due to a known incompatibity in how Zsh handles $0. > > Anyway, currenty the automake testsuite does not support being run by > > Zsh, so these failures is not worth worrying about yet. > > If they're not worth worrying about now, then perhaps it'd > be better to skip them than to fail? > The fact is that, currently, the Automake test scripts are run with /bin/sh instead of with $SHELL, but the self-check-*.test tests have been written to use $SHELL to test testsuite internals. I was hoping that this inconsistency would have soon been solved by the patch of mine that forced test scripts to run with configure-determined $SHELL, but that patch is still pending. See: <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2011-01/msg00033.html>
Regards, Stefano
