Re: Libtool head test status

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Sat, 8 Mar 2008, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Now, in that test, the toplevel configure script chooses
> $top_srcdir/INSTALL (yes, the text file) as install script.  I suspect
> this is because you have /uhome/src/gnu/libtool-head in the $PATH, the
> beginning of testsuite.log reveals that.  Why is that, did you add that
> manually?

Something in 'make check' must be putting it there since it is 
certainly not anything I did.  Perhaps automake does this in order to 
find its scripts?  It would be much safer to invoke any subordinate 
scripts using full paths. Unfortunately, Windows does not observe 
case.  As evaluated by 'ls -l' in msys, the INSTALL file has 
permissions "-rw-r--r--" so it should not be accidentally executed. 
However, if I pass /uhome/src/gnu/libtool-head/INSTALL to msys on the 
command line, it is indeed executed. The same happens with Cygwin. 
Perhaps since the execute bits are quite unreliable under Windows, any 
file is deemed executable.

This is the path setting in the shell that invoked the tests:

Bob address@hidden ~/mingw/libtool-head
$ echo $PATH
.:/usr/local/bin:/activestate/bin:/mingw/bin:/bin:/c/program 
files/graphicsmagick-1.1.11-q16:/c/Program Files/Microsoft DirectX SDK 
(June 
2007)/Utilities/Bin/x86:/c/Perl/bin/:/c/WINDOWS/system32:/c/WINDOWS:/c/WINDOWS/System32/Wbem:/c/Program 
Files/Microsoft SQL Server/80/Tools/Binn/:/c/Program 
Files/Rational/common:/c/Program 
Files/QuickTime/QTSystem/:/c/Qt/4.1.4/bin:/c/bin:/c/Adabas/bin:/c/Adabas/pgm:/c/Program 
Files/OpenVPN/bin

Bob
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