Stefano Lattarini wrote: > Hi Jim, thanks for the report. > > On 01/21/2012 10:17 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: >> On master a few days ago I noticed new test failures on a >> Fedora 16 system, due to the unprotected use of compress. >> >> In tests/dist-formats.tap, I read this: >> >> # Assume gzip(1) and compress(1) are available on every reasonable >> # portability target. >> >> Of course, I could install it with a simple "yum install ncompress", >> but the point is that compress is not installed by default. >> That tool is becoming anachronistic. >> > The attached patch should fix it. I will push it by this evening if > there is no objection (and if you have time to give it a try, that would > be great). ... > Subject: [PATCH] dist tests: missing "compress" program was causing spurious > failures > > Fixes automake bug#10575. > > The "compress" tool is becoming anachronistic, and thus is not > installed by default on modern distros (e.g., Fedora 16). We > can't thus unconditionally assume it exists on every reasonable > portability target. > > * tests/dist-formats.tap ($missing_compressors): When defining > this, don't assume anymore that compress(1) is unconditionally > available. > (Parallel compression): Skip this sub-test if compress(1) is > unavailable. > Since we are at it, fix a couple of unrelated buglets: a typo > in a test name (s/distcheck/ark-exists/), and some attempts to > remove directories with "rm -f".
That patch looks fine. I confirmed that avoids several of the failures. Thanks for the quick work.
