bug#44580: closed (DejaGnu runtest not found of site.exp exists)

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: DejaGnu runtest not found of site.exp exists Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2020 10:54:50 -0500

I have a Makefile created using the auto tools and it has a problem when making the ‘check’ target. The problem is the make file fails to verify the existence of runtest. The command used to test for the existence of runtest is:

if /bin/bash -c "runtest --version" > /dev/null 2>&1; then

What I found by running runtest by hand is it fails if the file site.ext exists. 

parallels@parallels-Parallels-Virtual-Platform:~/Desktop/Parallels Shared Folders/FlDist/trunk/testsuite$ runtest --version

ERROR: tcl error sourcing /media/psf/FlDist/trunk/testsuite/site.exp.

wrong # args: should be "set varName ?newValue?"

    while executing

"set objdir /home/parallels/Desktop/Parallels Shared Folders/FlDist/trunk/testsuite"

    (file "/media/psf/FlDist/trunk/testsuite/site.exp" line 5)

    invoked from within

"source /media/psf/FlDist/trunk/testsuite/site.exp"

    ("uplevel" body line 1)

    invoked from within

"uplevel #0 source /media/psf/FlDist/trunk/testsuite/site.exp"

    invoked from within

"catch "uplevel #0 source $file""

parallels@parallels-Parallels-Virtual-Platform:~/Desktop/Parallels Shared Folders/FlDist/trunk/testsuite$ rm site.exp

parallels@parallels-Parallels-Virtual-Platform:~/Desktop/Parallels Shared Folders/FlDist/trunk/testsuite$ runtest --version

DejaGnu version 1.6.2

Expect version 5.45.4

Tcl version 8.6

parallels@parallels-Parallels-Virtual-Platform:~/Desktop/Parallels Shared Folders/FlDist/trunk/testsuite$ uname -a

Linux parallels-Parallels-Virtual-Platform 5.4.0-42-generic #46-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jul 10 00:24:02 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

parallels@parallels-Parallels-Virtual-Platform:~/Desktop/Parallels Shared Folders/FlDist/trunk/testsuite$ 

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> Re: bug#44580: DejaGnu runtest not found of site.exp exists
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> Wed, 11 Nov 2020 20:56:09 -0600
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> Robert Menteer via Bug-dejagnu via wrote:
> > What I found by running runtest by hand is it fails if the file 
> > site.ext exists.
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> Your site.exp file is invalid; this is a bug in Automake rather than a 
> bug in DejaGnu.  The version of Automake that produced the Makefile.in 
> that you are using mishandles filenames containing spaces.  Tcl requires 
> a value containing spaces to be properly quoted in a "set" command, and 
> Automake is producing a site.exp that does not contain those quotes for 
> the objdir variable.
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> An immediate workaround is to run `sed -e '/^set [^ ]*dir [^"]/{s/dir 
> /&"/;s/$/"/}' -i site.exp` (tested with GNU sed) to fix your site.exp 
> file, or to avoid building in a directory where the absolute filename 
> contains spaces.
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> Additionally, as of commit b53b22c29880f785ae5e9e1c72925d2583a4c76d 
> (after 1.6.2 was released) DejaGnu no longer loads site.exp when invoked 
> with the --version option.
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> Please try regenerating your Makefile.in with a newer Automake or report 
> this as a bug in Automake if you are already using the latest version.
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> I am closing this report as NOTOURBUG.
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> -- Jacob
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