Re: fix mkinst3.test

2006-05-08 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 06:51:27PM CEST: > OK to apply? The build path contained the string `build-power', > and thus the test failed spuriously. I figured fiddling with > " $* " and *\ -p\ * was ugly as well (and error-prone if you > allow spaces in directory names!), so

distdir.test failures: VPATH and subdirs

2006-05-08 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
On all HP-UX and Tru64 boxen I have access to, distdir.test fails like this: $ make dist # in VPATH build, which is part of the distcheck stage | No suffix list. | Make: Don't know how to make ./joe. Stop. Removing the leading `./' from EXTRA_DIST = ./joe [...] fixes that on these hosts, so I

missing*.test failures on Tru64; 'required=' lines

2006-05-08 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
On the testdrive alphaev68-dec-osf5.1b, missing{,2,4}.test were failing (with native make). Again, this was fixable by adding some $sleep. But also it uncovered a buglet in the missing.test: required=GNUmake was set only after `./defs' was sourced. I don't know for sure why missing.test and m

spy.test and HP-UX/Tru64 make

2006-05-08 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
spy.test fails for me on a hppa2.0w-hp-hpux11.11 and on the testdrive alphaev68-dec-osf5.1b (both with native make). I believe both failures not to be related to double-colon rules. The failure on HP-UX can be treated with some $sleep before another touch, the Tru64 failure (over that seemingly b