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Re: [FYI] distlinksbrk.test: Work around botched "make -k".


From: Ralf Wildenhues
Subject: Re: [FYI] distlinksbrk.test: Work around botched "make -k".
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 21:03:29 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2010-08-04)

* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 03:49:49PM CET:
> I've applied the patch below to a temporary bug-fixing branch, merged
> it to maint, merged maint to master, and pushed.  The testcase still
> works with GNU make, FreeBSD make and Solaris make, but I couldn't
> test if it really fixes the problem with HP-UX make and IRIX make.

Thanks.  This makes the test pass on HP/UX 11.23 and IRIX 6.5.

Cheers,
Ralf

> distlinksbrk.test: Work around botched "make -k".
> 
> * tests/distlinksbrk.test: Run "make" multiple times and grep
> its output each time for a single error message, rather than
> running "make -k" one single time and grepping its output for
> all the expected error messages.  This should work around make
> implementations with limited (broken?) `-k' support; for more
> information, see these subthreads on the automake-patches list:
>   - 2010-11-15, "Testsuite failures on HP-UX 11.23",
>     <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-11/msg00162.html>
>   - 2010-11-15, "Testsuite failures on IRIX 6.5",
>     <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-11/msg00166.html>



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