bug#67894: automake-1.16i pretest available: please test

2023-12-19 Thread Peter Johansson
Hi Karl, On 20/12/23 10:09, Karl Berry wrote: Could you try running the test on its own? make VERBOSE=1 check TESTS=t/nodef.sh keep_testdirs=yes I ran it ten times and it succeeded 70% of the runs, so seems quite random in line with being due to the timing issue. Peter

bug#67918: random failures with automake-1.16i

2023-12-19 Thread Karl Berry
Hi Frederic - (switching to bug-automake for tracking) https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2023-12/msg00034.html I ran `make check` for this release on Fedora-rawhide and got random failures. Multiple runs seem to show different failures on all arches Thanks for the repo

bug#67894: automake-1.16i pretest available: please test

2023-12-19 Thread Karl Berry
Hi Peter - thanks for trying the automake pretest. I get one failure (t/nodef) I suspect a timing problem, since I can't fathom any reason why that particular test would fail on your system specifically. (The test basically just runs a minimal automake twice.) with autoconf 2.71. Ind

bug#67891: automake-1.16i doesn't build on Solaris 10 sparc

2023-12-19 Thread Karl Berry
Here's line 8135: $output =~ s/^((#.*)?\n)*\K/.POSIX:\n\n/; Ah. I'll get rid of the \K, once I remember/look up what it does :). (Jacob, if you have any advice, that would be great.) A simple fix would be for Automake to require Perl 5.10; Nah, we shouldn't require a jump in

bug#67891: automake-1.16i doesn't build on Solaris 10 sparc

2023-12-19 Thread Paul Eggert
On 2023-12-19 14:54, Karl Berry wrote: Hi Paul, help2man: can't get `--help' info from bin/automake Try `--no-discard-stderr' if option outputs to stderr So, the obvious question is, why can't help2man run bin/automake? Clearly it works on other systems, and it doesn't seem like this

bug#67891: automake-1.16i doesn't build on Solaris 10 sparc

2023-12-19 Thread Karl Berry
Hi Paul, help2man: can't get `--help' info from bin/automake Try `--no-discard-stderr' if option outputs to stderr So, the obvious question is, why can't help2man run bin/automake? Clearly it works on other systems, and it doesn't seem like this should be especially system-dependent. Can