It was reported in <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-libunistring/2021-08/msg00000.html> that the test-driver.diff does not work against the 'test-driver' file from Automake 1.16.4 (that was released on 2021-07-26):
patching file build-aux/test-driver Hunk #1 FAILED at 106. 1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file build-aux/test-driver.rej With this patch, I'm adding support for Automake 1.16.4. 2021-08-07 Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> gnulib-tool: Add support for Automake 1.16.4. Reported by <shoober...@gmail.com> in <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-libunistring/2021-08/msg00000.html>. * build-aux/test-driver-1.16.3.diff: Renamed from build-aux/test-driver.diff. * build-aux/test-driver.diff: Update to match Automake 1.16.4. * gnulib-tool (func_create_testdir, func_create_megatestdir): Try both .diff files. diff --git a/build-aux/test-driver.diff b/build-aux/test-driver-1.16.3.diff similarity index 100% copy from build-aux/test-driver.diff copy to build-aux/test-driver-1.16.3.diff diff --git a/build-aux/test-driver.diff b/build-aux/test-driver.diff index b81e5a1..53d7ef7 100644 --- a/build-aux/test-driver.diff +++ b/build-aux/test-driver.diff @@ -1,14 +1,14 @@ ---- test-driver.bak 2019-01-23 03:22:06.672283432 +0100 -+++ test-driver 2019-01-23 04:23:21.201060757 +0100 -@@ -106,7 +106,10 @@ - trap "st=143; $do_exit" 15 - - # Test script is run here. --"$@" >$log_file 2>&1 +--- test-driver.bak 2021-08-04 11:12:04.399976745 +0200 ++++ test-driver 2021-08-04 11:17:17.646343985 +0200 +@@ -109,7 +109,10 @@ + # to ameliorate tests themselves also writing to the log file. Our tests + # don't, but others can (automake bug#35762). + : >"$log_file" +-"$@" >>"$log_file" 2>&1 +case "$1" in -+ *.sh) sh "$@" >$log_file 2>&1 ;; -+ *) "$@" >$log_file 2>&1 ;; ++ *.sh) sh "$@" >>"$log_file" 2>&1 ;; ++ *) "$@" >>"$log_file" 2>&1 ;; +esac estatus=$? - + if test $enable_hard_errors = no && test $estatus -eq 99; then diff --git a/gnulib-tool b/gnulib-tool index 63a875d..9c4a6c1 100755 --- a/gnulib-tool +++ b/gnulib-tool @@ -6767,7 +6767,9 @@ func_create_testdir () fi (cd "$testdir" if test -f build-aux/test-driver; then - patch build-aux/test-driver < "$gnulib_dir"/build-aux/test-driver.diff || func_exit 1 + patch build-aux/test-driver < "$gnulib_dir"/build-aux/test-driver.diff \ + || patch build-aux/test-driver < "$gnulib_dir"/build-aux/test-driver-1.16.3.diff \ + || func_exit 1 fi ) || func_exit 1 } @@ -6871,7 +6873,9 @@ func_create_megatestdir () func_execute_command ${AUTOMAKE} --add-missing --copy || func_exit 1 rm -rf autom4te.cache if test -f build-aux/test-driver; then - patch build-aux/test-driver < "$gnulib_dir"/build-aux/test-driver.diff || func_exit 1 + patch build-aux/test-driver < "$gnulib_dir"/build-aux/test-driver.diff \ + || patch build-aux/test-driver < "$gnulib_dir"/build-aux/test-driver-1.16.3.diff \ + || func_exit 1 fi ) || func_exit 1 }