Subject: Re: devel/automake
To: John R. Shannon <john@johnrshannon.com>
From: Thomas Klausner <wiz@NetBSD.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 03/19/2004 11:41:14
On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 03:28:38AM -0700, John R. Shannon wrote:
> I've been running into some difficulty using automake recently so I ran "make
> test" in pkgsrc/dev/automake:
>
> =====================================
> 484 of 494 tests failed
> (33 tests were not run)
> Please report to bug-automake@gnu.org
> =====================================
>
> I "make test" supposed to work with this package?
No, it's not. I commented out the TEST_TARGET in the
Makefile and added a comment to make it obvious.
The problem is that buildlink3 hides the needed scripts
from autoconf too well.
If you want to test automake, just do
cd work*/automake*
make check
Cheers,
Thomas