Re: Error testing automake 1.9.6

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Stepan Kasal wrote on Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 12:39:50AM CEST:
> On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 10:07:17PM +0200, Pierre wrote:
> > 
> > Here are the log file.
> 
> it seems that the standard Unix command `test' (which is even a
> builtin in most shells) is replaced by something else:

Yes, that is one of the problems.  The other one is this:

| configure.in:6: /usr/local/bin/m4: ERROR: recursion limit of 1024 exceeded, 
use -L<N> to change it
| autom4te: /usr/local/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
| aclocal: autom4te failed with exit status: 1
| FAIL: libtool3.test

The infinite recursion seems to happen with all tests using Libtool.
And checking further:

| 
/tmp/automake-1.9.6/tests:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/ssl/bin:/usr/local/mysql/bin
| libtool5: running libtoolize --version
| libtoolize (GNU libtool) 1.9f

It seems you are using an old unreleased Libtool version
(and I vaguely remember seeing a similar bug a while ago).
My recommendation is to install 1.5.22 or, if you need features
not yet in there, a nightly snapshot of CVS HEAD that can be
downloaded from the Libtool homepage (the branch-2-0 branch
of Libtool has been discontinued, the snapshot is more stable
that it).

Cheers,
Ralf