automake/120: testsuite fails miserably on IRIX 6.5

[martinol at datasync dot com]

>Number:         120
>Category:       automake
>Synopsis:       testsuite fails miserably on IRIX 6.5
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    tromey
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Feb 14 09:21:00 PST 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     martinol@datasync.com
>Release:        automake-1.4d
>Organization:
>Environment:

>Description:
make check
Making check in .
Making check in m4
Making check in tests
        make  check-TESTS
PASS: acinclude.test
PASS: aclocal.test
FAIL: aclocali.test
FAIL: aclocali1.test
PASS: aclocalii.test
FAIL: acoutnoq.test
FAIL: acoutput.test
FAIL: acoutqnl.test
FAIL: acouttbs.test
PASS: acsilent.test
FAIL: all.test
FAIL: alpha.test
PASS: amassign.test
PASS: ammissing.test
FAIL: ansi.test
FAIL: ansi2.test
FAIL: ansi3.test
FAIL: ansi4.test
FAIL: auxdir.test
FAIL: backsl.test
FAIL: backsl2.test
PASS: badline.test
FAIL: badprog.test
FAIL: block.test
PASS: canon.test
FAIL: canon2.test
FAIL: canon3.test
FAIL: canon4.test
FAIL: canon5.test
FAIL: check.test
FAIL: checkall.test
FAIL: clean.test
FAIL: colneq.test
FAIL: colneq2.test
FAIL: colon.test
FAIL: colon2.test
FAIL: colon3.test
FAIL: colon4.test
FAIL: colon5.test
FAIL: colon6.test
FAIL: colon7.test
FAIL: comment.test
FAIL: comment2.test
FAIL: compile_f_c_cxx.test
FAIL: cond.test
PASS: cond2.test
FAIL: cond3.test
FAIL: cond4.test
PASS: cond5.test
FAIL: cond6.test
FAIL: cond7.test
FAIL: cond8.test
FAIL: cond9.test
FAIL: condincl.test
PASS: condincl2.test
FAIL: condlib.test
FAIL: condman.test
FAIL: condman2.test
FAIL: conf2.test
FAIL: confdist.test
FAIL: confh.test
FAIL: confh2.test
FAIL: confh3.test
FAIL: confh4.test
FAIL: config.test
FAIL: confincl.test
FAIL: confsub.test
FAIL: confvar.test
FAIL: confvar2.test
FAIL: copy.test
FAIL: cxxansi.test
FAIL: cxxcpp.test
FAIL: cxxlibobj.test
FAIL: cxxlink.test
FAIL: cxxnoc.test
FAIL: cxxo.test
FAIL: cygwin32.test
FAIL: dash.test
PASS: defun.test
FAIL: defun2.test
FAIL: dejagnu.test
PASS: depacl.test
PASS: depacl2.test
FAIL: depend.test
FAIL: depend3.test
PASS: discover.test
FAIL: distcommon.test
FAIL: distdir.test
FAIL: double.test
PASS: dup.test
PASS: dup2.test
PASS: dup3.test
FAIL: else.test
FAIL: empty.test
FAIL: empty2.test
FAIL: empty3.test
FAIL: empty4.test
PASS: error.test
FAIL: exdir.test
PASS: exdir2.test
PASS: exsource.test
FAIL: ext.test
FAIL: extra.test
FAIL: extra3.test
FAIL: extra4.test
FAIL: flibs.test
FAIL: fnoc.test
FAIL: fo.test
FAIL: fonly.test
FAIL: fortdep.test
FAIL: fpinst2.test
FAIL: fpinstall.test
FAIL: gcj.test
PASS: gcj2.test
PASS: gnits.test
FAIL: header.test
FAIL: implicit.test
FAIL: include.test
FAIL: info.test
FAIL: insh.test
FAIL: insh2.test
PASS: install.test
FAIL: install2.test
FAIL: installsh.test
FAIL: instdata.test
FAIL: instexec.test
FAIL: insthook.test
FAIL: instman.test
FAIL: instman2.test
FAIL: interp.test
FAIL: interp2.test
FAIL: java.test
FAIL: javaprim.test
FAIL: javasubst.test
FAIL: listval.test
PASS: ldadd.test
FAIL: ldflags.test
FAIL: lex.test
FAIL: lex2.test
FAIL: lex3.test
FAIL: lex4.test
FAIL: libobj.test
FAIL: libobj2.test
PASS: libobj3.test
FAIL: libobj4.test
FAIL: libobj5.test
FAIL: libobj6.test
FAIL: libobj7.test
FAIL: libobj8.test
FAIL: libobj9.test
FAIL: libobj10.test
FAIL: library.test
FAIL: link_c_cxx.test
FAIL: link_f_c.test
FAIL: link_f_c_cxx.test
FAIL: link_f_cxx.test
FAIL: link_f_only.test
FAIL: lisp.test
FAIL: ltlibobjs.test
FAIL: makevars.test
FAIL: mclean.test
FAIL: mdate.test
FAIL: mdate2.test
FAIL: mdate3.test
FAIL: mkinst2.test
FAIL: mkinstall.test
FAIL: nodep.test
FAIL: nodepcomp.test
FAIL: nodist.test
FAIL: noinst.test
FAIL: nostdinc.test
FAIL: number.test
FAIL: objc.test
PASS: obsolete.test
FAIL: obsolete2.test
PASS: order.test
FAIL: outdir.test
FAIL: output.test
FAIL: output2.test
FAIL: output3.test
FAIL: output4.test
PASS: output5.test
PASS: package.test
FAIL: parse.test
FAIL: pluseq.test
FAIL: pluseq2.test
FAIL: pluseq3.test
FAIL: pluseq4.test
PASS: pluseq5.test
FAIL: pluseq6.test
PASS: pluseq7.test
FAIL: pluseq8.test
FAIL: ppf77.test
FAIL: pr2.test
FAIL: pr9.test
FAIL: pr19.test
FAIL: pr72.test
FAIL: pr87.test
FAIL: prefix.test
PASS: primary.test
PASS: primary2.test
FAIL: proginst.test
FAIL: ranlib.test
PASS: recurs.test
FAIL: recurs2.test
FAIL: remake.test
FAIL: remake2.test
FAIL: remake3.test
PASS: req.test
FAIL: rulepat.test
FAIL: scripts.test
PASS: seenc.test
FAIL: sinclude.test
PASS: sourcesub.test
FAIL: space.test
FAIL: specflags.test
FAIL: specflags2.test
FAIL: specflags3.test
FAIL: specflags4.test
FAIL: specflags5.test
PASS: spell.test
PASS: spell2.test
FAIL: spell3.test
PASS: spelling.test
PASS: stamph.test
PASS: stdlib.test
FAIL: subdir.test
FAIL: subdir2.test
FAIL: subdir3.test
FAIL: subdir4.test
FAIL: subdirbuiltsources.test
FAIL: subobj.test
FAIL: subobj2.test
FAIL: subobj3.test
FAIL: subobj4.test
FAIL: subst.test
FAIL: suffix.test
FAIL: suffix2.test
FAIL: suffix3.test
PASS: symlink.test
FAIL: symlink2.test
FAIL: symlink3.test
PASS: syntax.test
FAIL: tags.test
FAIL: tagsub.test
PASS: target.test
FAIL: target-cflags.test
FAIL: texinfo.test
FAIL: texinfo2.test
FAIL: texinfo3.test
PASS: texinfo4.test
FAIL: texinfo5.test
FAIL: texinfo6.test
FAIL: texinfo7.test
FAIL: texinfo8.test
PASS: unused.test
FAIL: version.test
FAIL: version2.test
PASS: version3.test
FAIL: vpath.test
FAIL: vtexi.test
FAIL: vtexi2.test
PASS: whoami.test
PASS: xsource.test
FAIL: yacc.test
FAIL: yacc2.test
FAIL: yacc3.test
FAIL: yaccpp.test
=======================
217 of 268 tests failed
=======================
*** Error code 1 (bu21)
*** Error code 1 (bu21)
*** Error code 1 (bu21)

$ perl --version

This is perl, version 5.004_04 built for irix-n32

Copyright 1987-1997, Larry Wall

Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License or the
GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5.0 source kit.

$ ../automake-1.4d/configure --prefix=/people/marinol/auto_v2.5/devel
creating cache ./config.cache
checking for a BSD compatible install... ../automake-1.4d/install-sh -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
checking for perl... /bin/perl
updating cache ./config.cache
creating ./config.status
creating Makefile
creating automake
creating aclocal
creating m4/Makefile
creating tests/Makefile
>How-To-Repeat:
mkdir build
../automake-1.4d/configure
make
make check
>Fix:

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