bug#10866: 1.11a OSX with llvm - 3 fails, 47 skips, 3 errors, out of 2856 tests

[Stefano Lattarini]

Hi!

On 03/03/2012 10:04 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
>
>> # TOTAL: 2910
>> # PASS:  2847
>> # SKIP:  21
>> # XFAIL: 41
>> # FAIL:  0
>> # XPASS: 0
>> # ERROR: 1
>>
> ... there's still this annoying error:
> 
>> ERROR: get-sysconf
>> ==================
>>
>> Running from installcheck: no
>> Using TAP: no
>> PATH = 
>> /private/tmp/homebrew-automake-HEAD-DUdI/tests/ax:/private/tmp/homebrew-automake-HEAD-DUdI/tests/wrap:/usr/local/Cellar/libffi/3.0.10/bin:/usr/local/Cellar/texinfo/4.13a/bin:/usr/local/Cellar/gettext/0.18.1.1/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/share/python:/usr/local/texlive/2011/bin/x86_64-darwin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/local/Library/Contributions/examples
>> ++ pwd
>> /private/tmp/homebrew-automake-HEAD-DUdI/tests/get-sysconf.dir
>> + st=0
>> + test -d /private/tmp/homebrew-automake-HEAD-DUdI/.git
>> + awk '
>>    BEGIN { first = 1 }
>>    (first == 1) { print; first = 0; next; }
>>    /^[^\t]/ { exit(0); }
>>    { print }
>>  ' /private/tmp/homebrew-automake-HEAD-DUdI/ChangeLog
>> awk: cmd. line:2: fatal: cannot open file 
>> `/private/tmp/homebrew-automake-HEAD-DUdI/ChangeLog' for reading (No such 
>> file or directory)
>> + st=1
>>
> This is probably due to HomeBrew setting up the srcdir and builddir in a
> way unexpected to get-sysconf.test.  Do you happen to know how one can
> reliably determine whether the build system is being run by HomeBrew, so
> that the failing part of the test can be skipped instead of poisoning
> the whole testsuite result?
>
Ping on this?  It would be nice to finally close this bug report, and we are
so near to a complete solution ...

Regards,
  Stefano