bug#68151: automake-1.16j on Alpine Linux

2023-12-30 Thread Karl Berry
- does not understand the option '--best', only '-1' ... '-9'. - understands the options '-1' ... '-9' only when compressing, not when Seems a rather unnecessary incompatibility that some system decided not to support --best in gzip, when it has been available for those same 30 years. Oh well.

bug#68141: automake-1.16j on Ubuntu

2023-12-30 Thread Karl Berry
FAIL: t/python-prefix Log file is attached. I think it is the same issue as reported at https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=64837 . Thanks for the report. I hope Mike or Bogdan can look at it. I have trouble discerning fixes for anything Python-related. -k

bug#68119: [GNU automake 1.16.5] test-suite 45 tests failed

2023-12-30 Thread Karl Berry
Subject: [GNU automake 1.16.5] test-suite 45 tests failed Clean install of macOS Sonoma 14.2.1 on MacBook Pro M3 max Thanks for the report, but it seems like something in the environment is causing trouble. For example, one of the failing tests is dist-vs-built-sources.sh: gcc -DPACKA

bug#68141: automake-1.16j on Ubuntu

2023-12-30 Thread Bruno Haible
On Ubuntu 22.04, with an added symlink python -> /usr/bin/python3 I see a failure: FAIL: t/python-prefix Log file is attached. I think it is the same issue as reported at https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=64837 . FAIL: t/python-prefix = python-prefix: running