automake-1.6 -- "make check" problems and a patch

[Peter Breitenlohner]

Hi,

I just fetched automake-1.6 and tried to do (after configure)
        make DESTDIR=<some_where> all check install
In order to do so successfully I had to apply the attached patch.
I would like to ask you to incorporate these changes into the next
distribution.

Here some comments

1. tests/pr300-*.test:
These three tests failed (with autoconf-2.52), below the messages I got
from the `pr300-lib' with
        VERBOSE=x make check

=== Running test ../../automake-1.6/tests/pr300-lib.test
+ set -e
+ cat
+ cat
+ cat
+ perl ../../aclocal -I ..... (truncated)
+ autoconf
configure.in:8: error: `Makefile' is already registered with AC_CONFIG_FILES or 
AC_OUTPUT.
acgeneral.m4:3399: AC_CONFIG_FILES is expanded from...
configure.in:8: the top level
FAIL: pr300-lib.test

It is quite possible, that the unmodified tests work fine with your
autoconf version (2.52i) which is, however, not yet available as stable
version.

2. tests/defs:
Without this change the `nobase' test fails with
        make DESTDIR=<some_where> check
but works OK with
        make check

regards
Peter Breitenlohner <address@hidden>

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