tags 10575 patch severity 10575 minor close 10575 thanks On 01/22/2012 12:18 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: >> 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. > Thanks for the quick reply. I've pushed the patch, and I'm closing this bug.
Regards, Stefano