bug#10374: 3 test failures on fedora 16

2011-12-27 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 12/27/2011 06:22 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > On 12/27/2011 06:18 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: >> >> On 12/27/2011 03:55 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: >>> >>> General note: This comment appears in three places. >>> IMHO, that feels like too many. >>> >> I don't agree. >> > [SNIP] > > Ouch, now I s

bug#10374: 3 test failures on fedora 16

2011-12-27 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 12/27/2011 06:18 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > > On 12/27/2011 03:55 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: >> >> General note: This comment appears in three places. >> IMHO, that feels like too many. >> > I don't agree. > [SNIP] Ouch, now I see your point! You were referring to the copy of the comment in

bug#10374: 3 test failures on fedora 16

2011-12-27 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Hi Jim. I've fixed all the blunders you pointed out, and also correctly updated the date in lib/tap-driver.sh:$scriptversion. But I have to disagree with you on one point (see below). On 12/27/2011 03:55 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: > > General note: This comment appears in three places. > IMHO, tha

bug#10374: 3 test failures on fedora 16

2011-12-27 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 12/27/2011 03:45 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: > Stefano Lattarini wrote: > ... >> # or cpu time it can found. >> +# Limit memory available to spawned processes to ~ 150 MB. This might >> +# seem too liberal, but it is needed to account for present and features > > s/features/future/ > > I would s

bug#8407: aclocal installs third-party m4 files in directories specified with absolute paths, even if it is documented not to

2011-12-27 Thread Stefano Lattarini
tags 8407 + patch close 8407 thanks Reference: I've applied the attached patch to maint, and I'm thus closing this bug report. Regards, and thanks for the patience, Stefano >From 44da9cbd7dbbdb858d11e8dcdf213c32be7e333c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00

bug#10374: 3 test failures on fedora 16

2011-12-27 Thread Jim Meyering
Stefano Lattarini wrote: > On 12/26/2011 11:26 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: >> FAIL: tap-no-spurious-w >> > This is due to a backward-incompatible change in the newer TAP::Harness > releases. The attached patch (thoroughly commented) fixes this, and also > makes the behaviour of our awk TAP driver cons

bug#10374: 3 test failures on fedora 16

2011-12-27 Thread Jim Meyering
Stefano Lattarini wrote: ... >> Same with 60MB, but it passes with 70MB. >> So I suggest changing s/50/70/ in both the patch and the log message. >> Maybe even 90 or 100, just to be a little more future/bloat-proof. >> > Since we are being liberal already, let's go for 150 MB then ;-) > > What abou

bug#10374: 3 test failures on fedora 16

2011-12-27 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 12/27/2011 11:35 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: > Stefano Lattarini wrote: >> On 12/26/2011 11:26 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: >>> FAIL: cond29 >>> > ... >>> + aclocal-1.11a -Werror >>> /usr/bin/perl: error while loading shared libraries: >>> libc.so.6: failed to map segment from shared objec

bug#10374: 3 test failures on fedora 16

2011-12-27 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 12/26/2011 11:26 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: > FAIL: tap-no-spurious-w > This is due to a backward-incompatible change in the newer TAP::Harness releases. The attached patch (thoroughly commented) fixes this, and also makes the behaviour of our awk TAP driver consistent with that of these newer TAP

bug#10374: 3 test failures on fedora 16

2011-12-27 Thread Jim Meyering
Stefano Lattarini wrote: > On 12/26/2011 11:26 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: >> FAIL: cond29 >> ... >> + aclocal-1.11a -Werror >> /usr/bin/perl: error while loading shared libraries: >> libc.so.6: failed to map segment from shared object: >> Cannot allocate memory >> > Ah-ah, memory ulim

bug#10374: 3 test failures on fedora 16

2011-12-27 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 12/26/2011 11:26 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: > FAIL: cond29 > > > Running from installcheck: no > Using TAP: no > PATH = > /h/j/w/co/automake/tests:/opt/cov-sa-linux64-5.4.0/bin:/usr/lib64/ccache:/h/j/bin/perl:/h/j/bin:/p/p/git/bin:/p/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local:/usr/

bug#10374: depmod.tap failures on master (was: Re: bug#10374: 3 test failures on fedora 16)

2011-12-27 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 12/26/2011 11:26 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: > FAIL: depmod > FAIL: depmod.tap 50 - tru64 [long VPATH] make & remake > FAIL: depmod.tap 84 - tru64 [absolute VPATH] make & remake > Known long-standing failures; see: