Re: custom libtool installation and automake testsuite failures

2011-11-06 Thread Jim Meyering
Stefano Lattarini wrote: > On Sunday 06 November 2011, Jim Meyering wrote: >> I install my own versions of m4, autoconf, automake, libtool, etc., >> using --prefix=/p, and I put /p/bin earlier in PATH than /usr/bin, etc. >> >> Because of that, I've always had to initialize >> /p/share/aclocal/dirl

Re: custom libtool installation and automake testsuite failures

2011-11-06 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On Sunday 06 November 2011, Jim Meyering wrote: > I install my own versions of m4, autoconf, automake, libtool, etc., > using --prefix=/p, and I put /p/bin earlier in PATH than /usr/bin, etc. > > Because of that, I've always had to initialize > /p/share/aclocal/dirlist to contain /usr/share/acloca

Re: custom libtool installation and automake testsuite failures

2011-11-06 Thread Jim Meyering
Stefano Lattarini wrote: ... > Just to verify this hunch of mine is correct, can you tell me how > you've configured automake, where you have installed your private > libtool version, and post the logs of the failing test(s)? > >> Should I expect those tests to pass in this case? >> > For the momen

custom libtool installation and automake testsuite failures (was: Re: [PATCH] tests: avoid false positive due to change in --help formatting)

2011-11-06 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Hi Jim. On Sunday 06 November 2011, Jim Meyering wrote: > Stefano Lattarini wrote: > > On Friday 04 November 2011, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > >> On Friday 04 November 2011, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > >> > > >> > [SNIP] > >> > > >> > Attached is a patch in this spirit; I'll push in a few hours if t

Re: [PATCH] tests: avoid false positive due to change in --help formatting

2011-11-06 Thread Jim Meyering
Stefano Lattarini wrote: > On Friday 04 November 2011, Stefano Lattarini wrote: >> On Friday 04 November 2011, Stefano Lattarini wrote: >> > >> > [SNIP] >> > >> > Attached is a patch in this spirit; I'll push in a few hours if there is >> > no objection. >> > > Pushed now. Thanks. With that, I wo