RE: [autoconf 2.63] 95 of 353 tests fail

[Howard Larson]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith Marshall [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Friday, September 19, 2008 10:52
> To: address@hidden
> Cc: 'Ralf Wildenhues'; Eric Blake; Howard Larson
> Subject: Re: [autoconf 2.63] 95 of 353 tests fail
> 
> On Thursday 18 September 2008 06:07:28 'Ralf Wildenhues' wrote:
> > > > I have performed a search for a conftest.obj file and it does
> > > > not exist.  As I mentioned in an earlier email, build of
> > > > libtool failed to produce any .obj files.
> > > >
> > > > I have installed MinGW.  Does it not have gcc? If not, how do I
> > > > ensure make check is using gcc?  (I am new to this build
> > > > environment.)
> > >
> > > You may be better off asking these sorts of questions on the
> > > mingw list, then.
> >
> > Maybe, but the issue Howard reported looks pretty clearly like an
> > Autoconf one.  I'll try to get my w32 up and running again, maybe
> > this weekend, to reproduce his issue.
> 
> FWIW Ralf, I've just built autoconf-2.63 on an MSYS-1.0.11 box at
> work.  No errors in building.  I've left the testsuite running, but
> will not be able to report the final result until Monday; (I don't
> use msw on my own boxes).
> 
> So far, (it has reached test #230), eleven tests have been skipped:
> (26, 27, 28, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 183, 184 and 218), and there
> has been one expected failure: (91); all the rest have reported `ok'.
> 
> Regards,
> Keith.
> 
I did not receive errors for the autoconf build, either.  Nor, for the
automake build.  It is when the libtool build failed that I began to
investigate starting with autoconf make check.

Regards,
Howard  Larson