compiler cannot .....

2006-10-18 Thread gg
Hi, has anyone tried counting the ammount of confusion caused by the error msg : "* compiler cannot create executables" ? google it . Thousands from all distros with any compiler all getting badly confused. The problem is that this error msg traps a whole range of error conditions and

acloca20 test intermittent failure

2006-10-18 Thread Greg Schafer
Hi I'm testing automake-1.10 on i686-pc-linux-gnu and seeing an intermittent failure of acloca20.test. It fails for me roughly 1 in 4 attempts, but then other times it will pass 10 times in a row. Here's the verbose output when it fails: $ make check TESTS=acloca20.test VERBOSE=x make defs aclo