kc3-lang/automake

2012-01-27T18:35:28

tests: avoid spurious failure of 'transform2.test' on Cygwin On newer Cygwin versions (at least 1.7.x), the 'transform2.test' test has been failing spuriously; the gist is the following: some *purposefully* rigged install rules there try something like: install bla.exe .../inst/bin/foo.exe install script.sh .../inst/bin/foo and the second install command fails (trying to overwrite the '.../inst/bin/foo.exe' file, likely due to overly aggressive appending of '.exe' suffix when copying/renaming Windows executables). Since this is a Cygwin issue rather than an Automake one (and since the use case we are testing is a really corner-case anyway, making it unworthy to attempt to work around it in automake proper), we simply hack the test case to avoid the failure. Analysis by Peter Rosin and Ralf Wildenhues. References: <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-08/msg00153.html> <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin/119380> * tests/transform2.test: Skip the affected part of the test if the described Cygwin behaviour is detected.