Re: [wdiff-bugs] Subject: [GNU wdiff 0.5.92] testsuite: 1 failed

[Denver Gingerich]

On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 11:45 AM, Nelson H. F. Beebe
<address@hidden> wrote:
> A build of wdiff-0.5.92 on Fedora 8 on IA-32 failed because
> wdiff is not already installed:
>
> ## ----------------------------------- ##
> ## GNU wdiff 0.5.92 test suite: wdiff. ##
> ## ----------------------------------- ##
>  1: wdiff output formats                            FAILED (wdiff.at:25)
>
> ## ------------- ##
> ## Test results. ##
> ## ------------- ##
>
> ERROR: 1 test was run,
>
> % cat at-stderr
> /local/build/pathcc/wdiff-0.5.92/tests/testsuite: line 1249: wdiff: command
> not found
>
> I then did "make install" followed by "make check", and the
> tests passed.
>
> This looks like the validation suite is lacking a path to
> the newly-built wdiff in at least the wdiff.at test.
>
> I got similar failures on a few other platforms, and
> I'm now going to try the same fix.

Thanks for the report.  This is a known bug, described in the "issues
left to fix" section of the 0.5.93 release announcement
(http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/wdiff-bugs/2008-06/msg00001.html).
If you have any idea how to fix it, I'd be pleased to hear it.  I will
be asking the Autoconf people about it shortly.

Please use 0.5.93 for further testing.  0.5.92 will likely have issues
compiling on non-GNU/Linux systems due to its reliance on glibc
extensions rather than using the appropriate Gnulib replacements
(implemented in 0.5.93).

Thanks for testing wdiff!  These sorts of reports are very useful for
ensuring that we get all the kinks worked out before the 0.6 release.

Denver