> On 07/24/2012 03:33 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: > > > >> These are known testsuite issues (not real bugs in automake), and have > >> already been solved in the development version of Automake. So we > don't > >> need to worry about them. > > > > Okay .. this is a good thing. I guess we can expect a release on > that in > > the near future ? > > > Couple of weeks for the next maintenance version (1.12.3) I'd say. Couple > of months at least for the next major version (1.13).
beauty. To me a testsuite that goes over thousands of tests is a damn good thing and thus I am fine with running the whole show. > >> Just to be extra-sure: does the test pass if you run it as a non-root > >> user? If you don't have to check this, no big deal, as I'm already > >> pretty sure my diagnosis is correct. > > > > I will go back and give that a go, again. Will let you know for sure. > > However this is an old slow Sun Sparc Netra box and it will take bloody > > forever to run. Like 36 hours or so. > > > Oh, don't bother re-running the whole testsuite! Just the failed test > should be enough. You might re-run the whole testsuite once 1.12.3 is > out, maybe, if you have enough patience. > However, for just right now, how would I run just that one test? Dennis
