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Test suite fails in presence of DejaGNU

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From: Paul Rogers <paulgrogers <at> fastmail.fm>
To: bug-automake <at> gnu.org
Subject: Build failures 
Date: Mon, 01 May 2017 10:12:31 -0700

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I'm building LFS-7.10, but encountered these unexpected failures
following the book's instructions.
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(I do not personally endorse any additions after this line. TANSTAAFL
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From: Mathieu Lirzin <mthl <at> gnu.org>
To: Paul Rogers <paulgrogers <at> fastmail.fm>
Cc: 26738 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#26738: Build failures
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2017 00:17:50 +0200

Hello Paul,

Paul Rogers <paulgrogers <at> fastmail.fm> writes:

> I'm building LFS-7.10, but encountered these unexpected failures
> following the book's instructions.
> -- 
> Paul Rogers
> paulgrogers <at> fastmail.fm
> Rogers' Second Law: "Everything you do communicates."
> (I do not personally endorse any additions after this line. TANSTAAFL
> :-)

I was able to reproduce this bug on my machine (Fedora 25) with the
minor development branch (v1.15.0a).  The FAILING tests are related to
the presence of DejaGNU on the system.  Unfortunately I have never used
it so it won't be easy for me to debug.  Hopefully somebody more
knowledgable, will be able to investigate.

If you are only using Automake without DejaGNU, you can safely ignore
those failures.

Thanks for your report.

-- 
Mathieu Lirzin
GPG: F2A3 8D7E EB2B 6640 5761  070D 0ADE E100 9460 4D37

Message #11 received at 26738 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Mathieu Lirzin <mthl <at> gnu.org>
To: Paul Rogers <paulgrogers <at> fastmail.fm>
Cc: 26738 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#26738: Build failures
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2017 01:30:51 +0200

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Mathieu Lirzin <mthl <at> gnu.org> writes:

> I was able to reproduce this bug on my machine (Fedora 25) with the
> minor development branch (v1.15.0a).  The FAILING tests are related to
> the presence of DejaGNU on the system.  Unfortunately I have never used
> it so it won't be easy for me to debug.  Hopefully somebody more
> knowledgable, will be able to investigate.
>
> If you are only using Automake without DejaGNU, you can safely ignore
> those failures.

Here are my logs when running the "t/check12.sh", "t/check12-w.sh", and
"t/distcheck-no-prefix-or-srcdir-override.sh" tests that were failing on
Paul's system:

[config.log (text/plain, attachment)]

[test-suite.log (text/plain, attachment)]

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I overlooked that one of those failure was not related to DejaGNU,
but due to the use of the GZIP environment variable which had been fixed
in commit 749468ac63042820bc3da85ece5bed64b0c15d62 [1] which will be
available in the next bug-fix release.

-- 
Mathieu Lirzin
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[1] https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/automake.git/commit/?id=749468ac63042820bc3da85ece5bed64b0c15d62

Message #20 received at 26738 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Mathieu Lirzin <mthl <at> gnu.org>
To: Paul Rogers <paulgrogers <at> fastmail.fm>
Cc: 26738 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#26738: Build failures
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 22:17:18 +0100

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Hello,

Mathieu Lirzin <mthl <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Mathieu Lirzin <mthl <at> gnu.org> writes:
>
>> I was able to reproduce this bug on my machine (Fedora 25) with the
>> minor development branch (v1.15.0a).  The FAILING tests are related to
>> the presence of DejaGNU on the system.  Unfortunately I have never used
>> it so it won't be easy for me to debug.  Hopefully somebody more
>> knowledgable, will be able to investigate.
>>
>> If you are only using Automake without DejaGNU, you can safely ignore
>> those failures.
>
> Here are my logs when running the "t/check12.sh", "t/check12-w.sh", and
> "t/distcheck-no-prefix-or-srcdir-override.sh" tests that were failing on
> Paul's system:

I have identified the issue

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
Running target unix
Using /usr/share/dejagnu/baseboards/unix.exp as board description file for target.
Using /usr/share/dejagnu/config/unix.exp as generic interface file for target.
WARNING: Couldn't find tool config file for unix, using default.
Running ../../hammer.test/hammer.exp ...
ERROR: tcl error sourcing ../../hammer.test/hammer.exp.
ERROR: couldn't execute "../../hammer": no such file or directory
[...]
Running target unix
Using /usr/share/dejagnu/baseboards/unix.exp as board description file for target.
Using /usr/share/dejagnu/config/unix.exp as generic interface file for target.
WARNING: Couldn't find tool config file for unix, using default.
Running ../../spanner.test/spanner.exp ...
ERROR: tcl error sourcing ../../spanner.test/spanner.exp.
ERROR: couldn't execute "../../spanner": no such file or directory
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

‘hammer’ and ‘spanner’ are not found when running ‘make distcheck’
because they are not ditributed in the tarball.  Those scripts are
declared in the DEJATOOL special variable.  So I am wondering if the
contents of this variable should be automatically distributed or not.
If not here is a update for the test:

[dejagnu_fix.patch (text/x-patch, inline)]

diff --git a/t/check12.sh b/t/check12.sh
index 34007896c..111f43318 100644
--- a/t/check12.sh
+++ b/t/check12.sh
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ cat >> Makefile.am << 'END'
 AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS += dejagnu
 DEJATOOL = hammer spanner
 AM_RUNTESTFLAGS = HAMMER=$(srcdir)/hammer SPANNER=$(srcdir)/spanner
+EXTRA_DIST += $(DEJATOOL)
 EXTRA_DIST += hammer.test/hammer.exp
 EXTRA_DIST += spanner.test/spanner.exp
 END

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Mathieu Lirzin
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Message #27 received at 26738 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Mathieu Lirzin <mthl <at> gnu.org>
To: Paul Rogers <paulgrogers <at> fastmail.fm>
Cc: 26738 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#26738: Build failures
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2018 12:31:47 +0100

Mathieu Lirzin <mthl <at> gnu.org> writes:

> ‘hammer’ and ‘spanner’ are not found when running ‘make distcheck’
> because they are not ditributed in the tarball.  Those scripts are
> declared in the DEJATOOL special variable.  So I am wondering if the
> contents of this variable should be automatically distributed or not.
> If not here is a update for the test:
>
> diff --git a/t/check12.sh b/t/check12.sh
> index 34007896c..111f43318 100644
> --- a/t/check12.sh
> +++ b/t/check12.sh
> @@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ cat >> Makefile.am << 'END'
>  AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS += dejagnu
>  DEJATOOL = hammer spanner
>  AM_RUNTESTFLAGS = HAMMER=$(srcdir)/hammer SPANNER=$(srcdir)/spanner
> +EXTRA_DIST += $(DEJATOOL)
>  EXTRA_DIST += hammer.test/hammer.exp
>  EXTRA_DIST += spanner.test/spanner.exp
>  END

On second thought, I realize that distributing DEJATOOL automatically
would require handling ‘nodist_’ prefix in ‘automake’ since the content
of this variable could be generated scripts.  Given that this would
require a non negligeable amount of work, that seems more valuable to
require the package maintainers to add this variable to EXTRA_DIST
manually.

Let's apply this patch in a first step, and wait for a feature request
with a rationale before considering the other possibilty.

Commited in a0c7e40cf64d4512cc21ee5cdb9ba1341055f11c.

-- 
Mathieu Lirzin
GPG: F2A3 8D7E EB2B 6640 5761  070D 0ADE E100 9460 4D37

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