bug#42529: configure: error: Your 'rm' program is bad, sorry.

2020-11-20 Thread Karl Berry
Hi Bob - (sorry for the delayed reply) On an OpenIndiana system without the GNU utilities ... Usage: rm [-cFdfirRuv] file ...] So, it seems that system's rm does not accept "rm -f" (with no file operands)? (I don't have access to any such system to check.) If so, it seems the error

bug#39666: distcheck for VPATH build: #line directives of generated YACC and LEX c-files in tarballs

2020-11-20 Thread Karl Berry
Hi Jannick - (sorry for the delayed reply) So my question is under the premise of a VPATH build: Is there a remedy for the incorrect paths in these #line directives (OTHER THAN running configure and make in the top src dir)? My gut reaction is that make distcheck is not intended to be

bug#42665: New tests failures with autoconf-2.69b (beta)

2020-11-20 Thread Karl Berry
I think these issues have been resolved (by Zack) in the latest pretest autoconf. Closing here ... --thanks, karl.

bug#42051: Automake Bug

2020-11-20 Thread Karl Berry
It seems there is nothing to do about this autom4te issue on the automake side, so closing here ... --thanks, karl.

bug#44772: 2 test failures in automake 1.16.3

2020-11-20 Thread Bruno Haible
On a glibc system, I'm seeing 2 test failures in automake 1.16.3: $ ./configure --prefix=/arch/x86_64-linux-gnu/gnu-inst-automake/1.16.3 $ make $ make check ... FAIL: t/vala-headers.sh ... FAIL: t/vala-mix2.sh ... Find attached the log files (redacted for privacy reasons). vala and valac exist in