On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 04:32:50PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote:
> On 7/28/20 3:53 PM, Ken Moffat via lfs-dev wrote:
>
> > I'll now mention that a new release of autoconf is being prepared.
> > 2.69b (i.e. beta) came out a few days ago. Looking at gnu git,
> > there have been a few more fixes since then.
>
> I'm on the autoconf mailing list and built the beta.
>
> Parallel build is OK. Tests are slow and don't seem to be parallelizable.
>
Agreed.
> On a full system rhe tests pass with:
>
> 479 tests behaved as expected.
> 44 tests were skipped.
>
Yes, that matches what I said.
> Most of the skips were due to not having fortran, erlang, or go. There were
> also four expected failures.
>
As with all other skips and expected failures, we normally ignore
them.
> There are a fair number of issues on the list, but AFAICT, not for x86_64.
>
Agreed
> The release will not be in time for LFS-10.
>
> -- Bruce
Do you mean "old, with a broken test suite, but released" should
always be preferred to "beta, but looks good" ?
ĸen
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