tags 26514 patch fixed close 26514 stop Hello Bruno,
Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> writes: > On a Ubuntu 16.04 system (which happens to have the package 'gettext' > installed but the package 'autopoint' not installed) "make check" > of Automake 1.15 hangs: > > $ ./configure > $ make > $ make check 2>&1 | tee log3 > ... > gcj6: skipped test: GNU Java compiler unavailable > SKIP: t/gcj6.sh > > "ps" shows the following processes running for 45 minutes: > > make test-suite.log TEST_LOGS=t/get-sysconf.log ... > -> /bin/bash -c p='t/gettext-macros.sh'; ... > -> /bin/bash ./lib/test-driver --test-name t/gettext-macros.sh --log-file > t/gettext-macros.log --trs-file t/gettext-macros.trs --color-tests no > --enable-hard-errors yes --expect-failure no -- /bin/bash > ./t/gettext-macros.sh > -> /bin/bash ./t/gettext-macros.sh > -> /bin/sh /usr/bin/gettextize --force > > 'autopoint' is not found (since package 'autopoint' is not installed), > and 'gettextize' is found in /usr/bin/ (as part of package 'gettext'). > > The fix is obviously to NEVER attempt to run gettextize from a test script, > because gettextize is an *interactive* tool [1]. The test intended to cope > with > GNU gettext versions that predate the introduction of 'autopoint'. But these > versions are older than July 2002; we can ignore them by now. You definitely have a better understanding of what should be done for gettext related stuff than I do. So I trust your expertise. Applied in commit fc3afa8fe4d65bfad650b6230e1dc12d391a5477. Thank you. -- Mathieu Lirzin GPG: F2A3 8D7E EB2B 6640 5761 070D 0ADE E100 9460 4D37
