Re: [Bug-tar] GNU tar 1.19 on HP-UX

[H.Merijn Brand]

On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 06:36:49 -0600, Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:

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> [Adding automake-patches; other lists can be dropped in replies.]

Dropped

> > > According to H.Merijn Brand on 10/18/2007 1:43 AM:
> > > > 
> > > > Please convince the GNU world to add 'make test' as alias for
> > > > 'make check'.
> > > 
> > > It won't work for coreutils, where test is the name of a built program.
> > > That's why the GNU Coding Standards mandate 'make check', but mention
> > > nothing about 'make test'.  However, patches to automake are welcome.
> >
> > like attached?
> >
> > --
> > H.Merijn Brand         Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/)
> 
> Do you have copyright assignment for automake?

Not that I am aware of. Can you expand on this?

> By the time you fix this patch to add documentation, it might
> not be trivial any longer.

> > @@ -563,7 +563,7 @@ documentation targets, and that the `che
> >       # Then, define the other targets needed by Automake Makefiles.
> >       .PHONY: dvi pdf ps info html check
> >       dvi pdf ps info html:
> > -     check: test
> > +     test check: test
> 
> That looks like a circular dependency to me.

True, that chunk should/could be dropped.
Revised patch attached.

> And you need to make sure that automake still works for coreutils,
> which builds a test utility.

That could prove to be much harder, as I do not have automake/autogen
installed on most of these HP-UX boxes

I tried to build 1.10 on HP-UX 11.11 (11iv1) with HP C-ANSI-C 64bit

/pro/3gl/GNU/automake-1.10 111 > configure --prefix=/pro/local --disable-nls
:
:
/pro/3gl/GNU/automake-1.10 112 > make
Making all in lib
:
:
/pro/3gl/GNU/automake-1.10 113 > make test
Making check in lib
:
make[4]: Entering directory `/pro/3gl/GNU/automake-1.10/lib/Automake/tests'
PASS: Condition.pl
PASS: DisjConditions.pl
PASS: Version.pl
PASS: Wrap.pl
==================
All 4 tests passed
==================
:
make[2]: Entering directory `/pro/3gl/GNU/automake-1.10/tests'
FAIL: aclibobj.test
FAIL: aclocal.test
PASS: aclocal3.test
FAIL: aclocal4.test
FAIL: aclocal5.test
FAIL: aclocal6.test

etc etc

maybe it's not a wise idea to install that

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& 11.23, SuSE 10.1 & 10.2, AIX 5.2, and Cygwin.       http://qa.perl.org
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