Re: [PATCH] {master} tests: fix spurious failures due to missing 'yywrap()' function

[Stefano Lattarini]

On Tuesday 25 October 2011, Jim Meyering wrote:
> > On Thursday 20 October 2011, Jim Meyering wrote:
> ...
> >> Here you go, this is with the very latest autoconf early in my path,
> >> but that seems not to matter. These are all due to lack of yylex.
> >
> > Of yywrap, actually :-)
> >
> > Could you try the attached patch to see if it fixes the spurious
> > failures?
> 
> Sure.
> With that, "make check" on master now passes on Fedora 16.
> 
> [SNIP]
> 
> > This AC_PROG_LEX behaviour is causing some spurious failures of the
> > Automake testsuite in environments which lack a proper library
> > providing `yywrap' (this happens for example on 64 bits Red Hat
> > Linux).
> 
> It is independent of architecture and Fedora/RHEL, so you might want
> to say this instead:
> 
>   providing `yywrap' (this happens for example on Fedora-based systems).
> 
Yes, better.  Consider this fixed.

I've pushed the patch now.

Thanks,
  Stefano