On Saturday 16 April 2011, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > 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 > But still, `tests/defs' defined $SHELL to /bin/sh in your case, so the two failing tests are indeed buggy because they fail to pick up this definition.
I'll soon apply a patch fixing this problem. Sorry for the noise, Stefano
